From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiuBZ-000553-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:45:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01F6821C076; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F84C21C027 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 617) id DA6A81B404D; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:44:33 +0000 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Message-ID: <20120105204433.GA4383@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4F03A1AA.6070205@gentoo.org> <20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan> <4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org> <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> <20120104163315.GV780@gentoo.org> <20120104174742.11d7002d@pomiocik.lan> <20228.34930.732592.657243@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120105193024.GA8291@linux1> <20120105200844.1124e9d4@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120105200844.1124e9d4@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ff28bfad-9f4b-4d88-a405-593529e81cc9 X-Archives-Hash: c9b43afb001b627d034cf0c7d88b3d36 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:08:44PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > > > No, /etc isn't going anywhere. > > Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it). > Obviously, you'd have to reboot if you made any changes to your config > files, but that's OK since you can't safely restart daemons anyway. They've thought of that, and will make - kexec mandatory so that reboots are not needed for those times you need to switch kernels - make hibernation mandatory for the other times