On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:22 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > So here is the question I'll pose. Is it worth all of that extra > work for us to support separate /usr correctly, or should we just tell > everyone to start using initramfs or, if they don't want to use > initramfs and they are just using plain filesystems, the > busybox[sep-usr] option once all of the tools are stable?
My two cents: My thoughts - no, it isn't worth all that work. However, I'm not the one doing the work, so I'll let those who are judge for themselves whether it is worth it, and I'm not going to knock volunteer work done to benefit the Gentoo community. I hope they succeed. I also hope they don't diverge so far that it affects other packages, and I trust everybody to work together to prevent that. As far as separate /usr goes and all that, I just see this as one more option to offer our users alongside mdev, initramfs, an early boot script, or whatever. Add it to the news item, and let the users decide what they want to do. As far as I'm concerned eudev is just another option like systemd, and if at some point in the future a majority of the community/devs are behind changing the defaults, then we can consider that. Otherwise, stick it in news items, docs, wiki pages, or even the handbook as makes sense. Gentoo is about choice. Would I rather see some of these devs working on something else, like my favorite package? Maybe. But, if so I'm better off sending them an email to try to persuade them, or throwing money at them. What we ought not to do is knock their work. Rich
