Hi, Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an initramfs for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using the dependency tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html and consists of a couple of simple patches to the initscripts for udev and udev-mount, supporting a new initramfs option (defaults to "yes") in udev.conf. I've been using it on my desktop at home for a couple of months now and it works like a charm here. As ever, YMMV.
As I state in the post: This is only for people who know they have all the modules built-in the kernel to mount local filesystems, have a separate /usr and/or /var, and are happy with their current setups, apart from possible future issues with udev starting before localmount, and find the requirement for an initramfs sufficiently annoying to tweak their setups, *and* are willing to deal with keeping the lines in the initscripts during etc-updates. This is on stable udev (164-r2.) I'm not running unstable, so be careful if you are, and let us know if there are any changes needed. You can get in touch on IRC, or via the forum post. HTH, igli. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
