On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > Something I don't like about this whole debate is that it tends to > come off as "I've never run an initramfs and darn it I want to keep it > that way." Gentoo has always been a cutting-edge/innovative distro. > We have prefix, hardened, x32, and we were among the first to support > amd64. Sure, that flexibility also lets you get away without an > initramfs where other distros simply cannot. However, the lack of an > initramfs should not be a crutch.
Rich, you just hit my concern about this debate right on the head. I feel like the nay-sayers are opposed to it because of the FHS, and the idea of critical software going in / and everything else in /usr. The attitude seems to be that has always worked, so it must continue to work into the future, with no regard to the advantages that moving everything to /usr would give us. Another concern I've heard says that we shouldn't do this on linux because gentoo *bsd doesn't do it. I don't see that as relevant because ebuilds can be smart enough to test whether they are being emerged on Linux or *BSD. William
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