On 29/09/2013 20:55, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2013-09-28 6:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> So this brings us back to the essential technical problem that still >>> needs to be solved on your machines: >>> >>> /usr needs to be available (and not only for BT keyboards) at the >>> earliest possible opportunity - this is a technical constraint. To >>> guarantee that, you need to either merge /usr with /, or use an >>> initramfs to guarantee that /usr is available before anything else >>> happens in userland. >>> >>> It*really* is that simple. If you have a better solution than my last >>> two choices, then I am all ears. >> >> Ok, and if this is all true, I can accept it. > > Alan, this is a very good summary of the issues involved. Everyone on > the list should go and read flameeyes' blog post then this summary.
Thanks William. It really was an off-the cuff description done to answer a user's question. I'm glad to hear it communicated what I intended. > > Tanstaaf, > > I am the OpenRC author/maintainer and a member of base-system. I can > tell you that we are not discussing forcing systemd on everyone in > Gentoo Linux as a default init system. I can also tell you that I am not > aware of the Gentoo systemd team discussing this. Even if they were, a > distro-wide change like this would have to be brought before the > Council. > > William > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
