On 09/04/16 23:50, Philip Webb wrote: > 160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >>> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >>> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >>> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6 mth ago . >>> When setting it up, I suppressed UEFI in the BIOS settings : >>> isn't that what anyone not running M$ would do ? >> I just disabled secure boot, although it's possible to use it with Linux. >> However, it would require to manually sign everything from boot loader >> to kernel modules, since Gentoo has no infrastructure to do that. >> I don't "supress" UEFI, since it's *obviously* so much better than BIOS >> and since bootctl (the program formerly known as gummiboot) >> it's incredible easy to use. You don't even notice it's there. > Sorry, I meant "suppress secure boot". My mobo doesn't have UEFI. > >> I believe there are motherboards where you don't have the option >> to "supress" UEFI, since they simply don't have BIOS anymore. >> Seriously, UEFI is soooo much better. > Thanks for the enlightment (smile). > > Can you or anyone else answer my other question re the origin of the thread ? > -- ie is this a revival of not putting /usr on its own partition > or is it a new proposal to alter the file system in some other way ? > Philip, the discussion was prompted from this original message by WilliamH:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/df3c1494ea49191d4e3d442e37eb8ca2 Basically there is a desire to either (1) move /bin, /sbin to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin or (2) the reverse (ie. eliminate /usr) for a variety of reasons, but predominately to offer "more users more choice", and uphold the principle of Gentoo being a distro of flexibility. Whilst there is some good pros/cons being aired, there is also the usual amount of gentoo bike-shedding, and personal preference distorting the discussion :) .
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