On 2012.12.27 22:13, William Hubbs wrote: > 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 > >
I don't think the 'luddites' have quite so black and white a view as that but if I expand on it much more, I'll reignite a flamewar we have already had. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees
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