On 04-01-2012 19:50:24 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:12:18 +0100
> Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
> > 
> > >> What mistakes?
> > 
> > > The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule of
> > > thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking
> > > packages just to make it work.
> > 
> > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation.
> > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem
> > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system."
> 
> Why don't we have sshd there then? I don't really feel like repairing
> remote system without fallback sshd.

Network isn't typically in that bootlevel.  You'd just attach through
the console (netmgt, ipmi, keyboard/vga) instead.

> And a compiler. If I mess up some important system component, I'd really
> use one. And package manager. And backup system libraries...

Time for your PXE boot from net to just bring back a sane image or so.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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