On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon >> <chain...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the >> >> council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an >> >> initramfs, I am re-considering this. >> > >> > So now that the /usr-merge steamroller can not break systems through >> > udev, because an alternative now exists... another way must be found? >> > That seems rather immature. >> > What must be forked next to keep this working? openrc? >> >> Tend to agree, assuming it causes no additional work for package maintainers. > > As I and others have said on this list a thousdand times, moving > everything to /usr never had anything to do with systemd and udev. This > is a completely separate topic. >
It has everything to do with udev if you (as the udev maintainer for Gentoo) decide to put zero effort into keeping udev working with a traditional split-/usr configuration. Although udev is only one package of many, it is a pretty damn critical one.
