On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:00:06AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote >>> > * Separate /usr worked fine for AGES, until... Do you see a pattern >>> > developing here? >>> > >>> seperate /usr has stopped working fine AGES AGO. Just some setups were >>> lucky enough not to stumble over the wreckage and fall into the shards. >> >> I.e. the 99% who don't need initramfs before today. Some corner case >> exotic setups require complex solutions... no ifs/ands/ors/buts. All >> the complaining you hear is from the other 99% who's setup worked just >> fine with the simple solution, suddenly finding the complex solution >> rammed down their throats. > > funny. In the Linux community, running an "init thingy" is the 99%. We peeps > with our custom kernels and builtin drivers are the 1%.
And growing smaller. I used to compile *everything* in my kernels; I had a warm fuzzy feeling when in my laptop I did lsmod, and nothing was listed. Then I started to use an initramfs, and I found quite elegant that you can put everything in modules, since from the initramfs udev will take care of loading the necessary (and *only* the necessary). Nowadays I have everything in modules; filesystems even. I'm still using custom kernels thought. And, on a personal note, I find a little quaint (and somehow naïve) to think about (for example) bluetooth as a "corner case", when most of us walk with a bluetooth enabled Linux computer on our pockets. I want Gentoo Linux on my cellphone. And it's probably not going to happen with OpenRC. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
