On 09/04/16 13:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 05/04/16 03:19, William Hubbs wrote: >>> Thoughts on any of this? >> >> The whole usr-merge moves the problem of putting stuff in / to putting >> the very same stuff in the initrd when something different from busybox >> (or equivalent) is needed to get the early boot mounting. >> >> Do we have a reliable way to address this now? >> > > Put the very same stuff in the initramfs? Most initramfs creation > scripts should already do this automatically, and with compat symlinks > even those that don't probably will still end up doing it anyway..
The question is different: do they work reliably? usr-merge does not solve any problem in itself (and it is totally backwards, if somebody wants to simplify would do /usr -> /), but makes more evident that you might need lots of the userspace to successfully complete your early boot. lu
