On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:34 PM, <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 12:18:25PM -0500, »Q« wrote >> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 >> waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 07:11:31AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote >> > >> > > It was simply a recognition that we were already in a state where >> > > booting a system without /usr mounted early can cause problems. >> > >> > For certain edge cases... yes. But they were already using >> > initramfs or merging /usr into /. I'm talking about the 95% who >> > don't really need it. >> >> Booting without /usr mounted early is something Gentoo already doesn't >> support and can't support, right? > > If you can read this post, you've got a mighty powerful imagination. > Because we all know that Gentoo can't boot, let alone send emails, from > a machine with separate /usr and no initramfs... just like I'm using > right now.
Nobody said it was not possible; Q said that it was not supported, and it cannot be because, in the general case (not *YOU* specific case), someone somewhere may require something from /usr to boot. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
