On 03-01-2012 10:51:00 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > If a separate /usr is the only holdback, would it not be possible to 
> > simply add static devnodes to the pre-udev /dev , and make a pre-init 
> > wrapper script that mounts /usr ?
>  
> I've thought about this, but a wrapper script assumes that the things it
> needs are still available in /, so any wrapper script we make will break
> as soon as something it needs migrates to /usr. For example, consider
> what happens when bash or all of coreutils migrate to /usr.

Do you mean us, or upstream?
I don't think bash or coreutils do that.  We explicitly configure them
with --prefix=/ or move some utils back and forth.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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