> But requiring > people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately > require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but > there are many, many different system configurations out there and > Gentoo is famous for supporting a wide variety. That variety is stomped > on if something like a /usr merge is forced. It also makes building your > default environment more complicated due to generating an initramfs.
Absolutely agreed.