Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Olivier Crête schrieb am 06.01.12 um 03:15 Uhr: > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 08:44 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > On 01/06/12 05:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > > [snip] > > > The only thing I see them sacrificing is loose coupling, they provide > > > more functionality than any other init system, more co

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 08:44 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/06/12 05:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > [snip] > > The only thing I see them sacrificing is loose coupling, they provide > > more functionality than any other init system, more correctness > > (seriously, did you ever read most init script

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
Hi, On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:29 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > Negative effects of removing the /bin/systemd symlink on 2021-05-01: an > unknown number of users who had forgotten to update their grub.conf will > discover that they can no longer boot their systems. > > I would suggest not re

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 00:52 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > 3) a symlink is installed at /bin/systemd to ensure that current init= > specifications are still valid. > > Please note that these features will be removed after the transitional > period and users upgrading afterwards will have to manually

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 6 January 2012 06:14, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/06/12 05:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > [snip] >> The only thing I see them sacrificing is loose coupling, they provide >> more functionality than any other init system, more correctness >> (seriously, did you ever read most init scripts out there?

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 01/06/12 05:26, Olivier Crête wrote: [snip] > The only thing I see them sacrificing is loose coupling, they provide > more functionality than any other init system, more correctness > (seriously, did you ever read most init scripts out there?), more well > defined behavior (all systemd systems b

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
120106 Michał Górny wrote: > I'm going to move systemd completely to /usr soonish > and thus I'd like to submit the following news item for review. > I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions. > -- NEWS ITEM FOLLOWS -- ... > For this reason, a new revisions of all systemd versions have been

[gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I'm going to move systemd completely to /usr soonish and thus I'd like to submit the following news item for review. I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions. -- NEWS ITEM FOLLOWS -- Title: systemd /usr migration Author: Michał Górny Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2012-01-06 Revisio

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:08:44PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. > > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to > put /etc inside your

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2012-01-05 Thread Pacho Ramos
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:06:18 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > > I don't claim they're crazy. I claim they're sacrificing > > functionality, correctness, loose coupling, simplicity, well defined > > behaviour, understandability and stability in order to implement > > questionable new shiny things. > > A

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:09:35 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:09 -0500 > Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 21:09 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:09 -0500 > Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:09 -0500 Olivier Crête wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. > > > > Are you sure? I heard a ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. > > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to > put /etc inside your initrd

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:08:44PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. > > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it). > Obviously, y

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it). While I can't speak to your comments about being unable to restart daemons with systemd (hope this isn

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it). Obviously, you'd have to reboot if

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:27:49AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller > > > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. > > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem > > must

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:12:26 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > But init=/bin/sh (or /bin/bash as I use here) DOES help in a > surprising number of cases as long as the necessary storage and input > drivers and filesystem modules are builtin. And a lot of us have > strong ideas abo

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Duncan
Olivier Crête posted on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:31:07 -0500 as excerpted: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:08 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: >> >> I meant "hight-level" only in a way that it is not really needed to >> boot the very basic things of a system so that I can get a root prompt >> at the console

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-radio/fldigi (unless patched for fltk-1.3)

2012-01-05 Thread Thomas Beierlein
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:59:54 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > # Samuli Suominen (23 Dec 2011) > # Missing fltk-1.3 support and forced downgrade of fltk > # in the same stabilization level which makes this gentoo-x86 > # incompatible package. Bug 395747. Removal in 30 days. > media-radio/fldigi >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:08 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > I meant "hight-level" only in a way that it is not really needed to > boot the very basic things of a system so that I can get a root > prompt at the console at least. E.g. you do not need dbus to find > and mount the rootfs, fire a ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:08 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > I meant "hight-level" only in a way that it is not really needed to > boot the very basic things of a system so that I can get a root > prompt at the console at least. E.g. you do not need dbus to find > and mount the rootfs, fire a ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Michał Górny schrieb am 05.01.12 um 09:26 Uhr: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:30:07 +0100 > Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > * Olivier Crête schrieb am 04.01.12 um 18:40 Uhr: > > > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:54 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:51:12 +0100 > > > > Michał Górny wr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:30:07 +0100 Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Olivier Crête schrieb am 04.01.12 um 18:40 Uhr: > > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:54 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:51:12 +0100 > > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > /bin/systemctl > > > > libdbus-1.so.3 => /