On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > William, I think what Tom was mentioning here is that he thinks a > one-sentence answering the "Why" would be a good idea to have in the > news item, so users that don't have a clue on all of these sep-/usr > issues will get an idea of why the change is being made.
How about something like: Due to many upstream changes properly supporting a separate /usr without an initramfs has become increasingly difficult - despite all our efforts it already breaks in some exotic configurations, and this is a trend likely to grow worse. Rich