From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:17:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318519027.3885.5.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org>
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On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 00:40 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Recently, there was a firestorm on the gentoo-user list over the idea
> that udev would eventually require /usr to be on the same physical
> parition as /, or else use initramfs, which is its own can of worms. I'm
> not a programmer, let alone a developer. Rather than merely ranting, I
> went and searched for an alternative.
You completely misunderstand what Kay wants, what we are saying that is
that you need to mount /usr at the same time as you mount /, which you
can still do in your initramfs, etc.
That said, we, the GNOME upstream, think that having a separate /usr is
a completely stupid idea.
--
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 4:40 [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 5:05 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-12 13:10 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 5:32 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-10-12 13:09 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 23:37 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-10-12 7:05 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-12 13:09 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-12 16:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 17:25 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-12 17:30 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-10-12 17:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-10-12 17:56 ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 15:14 ` Olivier Crête
2011-10-13 15:28 ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 16:30 ` Arun Raghavan
2011-10-13 17:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 18:34 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-10-13 18:55 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 18:59 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 19:03 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 17:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-10-15 8:42 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-15 8:57 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2011-10-15 9:13 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-15 9:23 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-15 22:07 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-16 12:52 ` [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition (was: Suggestion for getting rid of udev) Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-16 18:44 ` [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition Zac Medico
2011-10-16 19:36 ` Graham Murray
2011-10-16 19:40 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-17 16:02 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 17:24 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-17 17:50 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 17:55 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-10-17 19:18 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2011-10-17 20:01 ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-10-17 20:31 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-16 13:07 ` [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Rich Freeman
2011-10-16 19:33 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-17 20:59 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-10-18 18:03 ` Zac Medico
2011-10-15 4:06 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-15 7:29 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-15 17:13 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-15 20:45 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-10-15 7:33 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-13 14:12 ` Thomas Kahle
2011-10-15 3:37 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-15 3:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 7:08 ` Markos Chandras
2011-10-12 13:26 ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-12 19:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 2:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-10-13 2:43 ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-13 15:17 ` Olivier Crête [this message]
2011-10-13 15:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2011-10-16 18:06 ` Greg KH
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