On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, Michael. > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:55:15PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >> Hi Alan, > >> On Tuesday, 13. September 2011 14:40:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:50:13PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > >> > Ah. OK. Maybe I've misunderstood the whole thing. Could it be that >> > there's no explicit requirement for early mounting of /usr, providing one >> > has the discipline to keep everything needed for booting in the / >> > partition? > >> I think so. But you will run an unsupported config afaict. Another point is, >> that baselayout might change, iff gentoo follows fedora. Afaik fedora wants >> /bin, /sbin and /lib to be symlinks to /usr/* and keep them only for "legacy >> reasons". > > If the reaction of people in this mailing list is anything to go by, > Gentoo won't be following Fedora.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72730 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72736 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72739 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72748 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72750 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72751 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72752 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72760 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72761 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72768 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72769 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72775 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72783 I repeat that I pointed this thread since the beginning. We (the users) can argue until our mouths are dry. The final decision (and the only one that matters) is on the developer's hands. Read the thread: there are objections to the inclusion of an initramfs or the moving of /usr to /, but the discussion seems to have ended with the conclusion that is better to follow the rest of the distros. That's my reading: other may (and surely will) disagree. But the devs thread is really really short (compared to the ones on -user). I think that means that the ones that will actually write the code will, you know, actually write code, and the change will in the end happen. Probably when dracut seems to be stable enough. So, please, don't think that anything will be decided by how many people object in -user. Because, in the first place, not all Gentoo users are suscribed in gentoo-user, and of those suscribed, not everyone writes. I didn't, for a really long time (and I have been using Gentoo since 2003). Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
