On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:44:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
> the follow-ups...
>
> I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
> I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
> forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none of you are crying over that, but
> *I* am), and I've seen other similar comments... I'm thinking of FreeBSD
> too (and PCBSD for my desktop)...
I wonder what to do also. Part of me wonders why in the hell anyone
thinks they need to make such a change, seemingly just for the sake of
change. Having /root, /boot, and /bin et all distinct from the user
mode /usr, /home, and everything else always seemed to me one of the
genuinely clever bits of Unix. I understand that things get more
complex, and the idea of a very simple base system are long gone, but
why does that require doing away with the separate partitions?
Maybe I'm just a retro grouch in that respect. But there are other
concerns. I had thought of just copying /boot et all into /usr,
adding a grub entry to boot off that partition, and easing into the
brave new world. But I can't do that. My /usr is an LVM partition,
and making that bootable is apparently as big as hassle, perhaps more
so, than using dracut or some simpler initramfs.
I began computing back before there were integrated circuits and 8 bit
computers, let alone cell phones with more computing power than the
$10M monsters. I look forward to the day when my pocket computer
automatically links to the display and keyboard at my desk when I sit
down, or projects its display on the wall and watches my fingers on a
bare desk for keys and I don't have to worry about synching my various
computers or worrying about patent wars. The days have long passed
when I enjoyed seeing how many instructions I could get on one 80
column punched card (hint: overlap them) or how few instructions it
took to figure out the days in a month (hint: use parity) or spending
days optimizing for a drum computer ... or messing with configuration
issues because some self-proclaimed efficiency export decided that
/usr was needed at boot.
My attitude right now is to wait and see. Maybe this will all blow
over, maybe the self-proclaimed experts will find other things to do,
maybe other self-proclaimed experts will find nifty tools to make
migration easier. In the meantime, I have other work to do, and I
will just freeze parts of my system for the time being. I don't see
migrating to other systems as being worth any more than an up-yours.
Any other linux system will no doubt do the same. Any other unix but
not linux system will have an entirely different hassle. I am past
the days when dinking for the sake of dinking involved boot issues and
disk configurations. There are much more interesting bigger issues to
dink with now.
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