On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 09:57:46 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly:
> > >> It was discussed on -dev so far.  This is the subject line:
> > >> 
> > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper
> > >> initramfs  in the handbook?"
> > >> 
> > >> I think it will apply to /var to at some point.  I think it
> > >> sucks.  I  have /var on a separate partition and want to put
> > >> /usr on one to but not now.
> > > 
> > > Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev
> > > ever intended to do.
> > > 
> > > /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel
> > > without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for
> > > Gentoo....
> > 
> > I wish you could convince the devs of that.  I already have /var on
> > its own and was planning to put /usr on its own.  I'm not now tho.
> > Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part.  It
> > downright sucks.
> > 
> > You planning to explain this to the devs?  Maybe you will have
> > better luck.  They said it is a dev from Fedora that started this .
> > . . . crap.  ;-)
> 
> I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see.

The very reason I use Gentoo is BECAUSE I don't like RHL.  :(

I still have to use CentOS on a server and curse every time it won't work like 
Gentoo.  Can't they just leave us alone?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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