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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 15:17 UTC|newest]

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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