On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 09:31:07AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> Add another to the list of folks who disagree with this and with the
> approach being taken.
>
> I don't blame gentoo devs per se, but I do feel like this is being
> forced down everyone's throats without any regard to the *nix philosophy
> of having separate /usr which has worked for years, and if people would
> fix their bugs correctly would continue to work.
Same here. I do consider the situation to be a bug and, even if the damage
is already done, it doesn't mean we should help with debolishing what is
left.
If anything, we should make it clear to users when and why an initramfs is
needed. Saying "because you have a /usr on a separate file system" is not
only a lie, it also covers the truth beneath it. Rather, why not identify in
which situation(s) you will need an initramfs and work from there?
I personally have /usr on a separate partition too (using LVM) without an
initramfs or initrd. Works just fine. And I'd like to keep it that way,
since it is simple and very manageable.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
