On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: >> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same >> > way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better. >> >> You are one of very few that feel this way. > > You are probably correct that he's one of the relatively few people (along > with the udev developer, and those few people for whom it will fix their > problems) who think these changes are a real improvement. > > I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those such as > myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and either will not be affected at > all > by these changes (because they don't separate / and /usr), or will simply > apply the proposed initramfs solution and move on. > > Then there are those relatively few people, such as the handful making up the > rest of this thread, who think that these changes are a horrible idea and will > have a severe deterimental affect on their systems. > > Not that the relative "size" of the various sides in this debate is really the > issue, but despite the tone of this and the other thread, I don't think > there's really a huge, overwhelming outcry against these changes.
My complaints are chiefly philosophical; it's not a correct solution, because the problems it purports to fix will just re-emerge down the road. I'm all in favor of well-architected systems and good, sound, informed discussion. I've only been involved in this thread as much as I have been because there's been a dearth of such in it. -- :wq
