On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:20:49AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-09-28 8:30 AM, Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > > This does not mean that on November 1 your system will not be able to boot. > > Its simply means that beginning November 1, Gentoo devs are not required to > > jump through hoops to make apps work on systems with /usr separate from /. > > > > Now, what are you going to do? That's the question. > > This won't necessarily be the end of the worl, if, and ONLY if any and > all ebuild mainteainers are REQUIRED to provide very large and scary > warnings if they change something that will cause any systems with a > separate /usr and NO initramfs to fail to boot.
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