Am 29.09.2013 14:07, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: <snipped everything because of stupid 'conspiracy' talk>
there was no conspiracy and there will never be one to break seperate /usr. In fact seperate /usr works just fine. You just need an initrd/initramfs. Other distros are using those for ages. So for them putting something 'essential' into /usr was no problem. It was not their fault that gentoo users hate this things so much. From REDHATs or SuSEs perspective seperate /usr is not a problem. Putting lvm/bluetooth/mdraid/whateverthefuckyoumightneed there was and is not a problem too. Thanks to initrds&co. They are using them for AGES and it works fine. See? No conspiracy needed. It just happened that YOUR use case of seperate /usr + no initrd has become so arcane and rare that pretty much nobody needs or wants to worry about fringe cases. Would you be fine with a 40% decrease in performance just to optimally support some 3 machines worldwide architecture? Certainly not. And that is not a conspiracy either. I dislike them, because they are another step to be taken on updates. But if I was so dumb to create a seperate /usr - well I wouldn't complain about the initrd and just go with the rest.
