On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:56:11 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0100 > > Enrico Weigelt<weig...@metux.de> wrote: > > > >> * Micha?? Górny<mgo...@gentoo.org> schrieb: > >> > >>> Does working hard involve compiling even more packages statically? > >> I guess, he means keeping udev in / ? > > Because adding 80 KiB of initramfs hurts so much? We should then put > > more work just to ensure that admin doesn't have to waste 15 > > minutes to recompile the kernel (if necessary), create an initramfs > > and add it to bootloader config? > > > > > Took me days to get dracut to work. Where does 15 minutes come > from? I just took the time I needed to write an initramfs from scratch and divided it by two, assuming using an already-made tool is simpler. > How much time does it take when the initramfs fails? The same when rootfs fails? Only the fact that initramfs is less likely to break than rootfs, and you have a pretty good opportunity now to experiment with it while nothing on your system made it useless without one. > I keep hoping that all the smart people involved in this will see the > mess it is creating. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but I'm > sharp enough to see the mess this is going to create and I'm just a > desktop user. I feel sorry for people with more complicated systems > or remote ones. The mess was created by people shouting 'hey, real men use separate /usr for no good reason! Be awesome like us'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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