Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:51:27PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 01:45 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:50:51AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, William Hubbs wrote:
> >>
> >>> This all started with the April 2012 council meeting when it was
> >>> pushed through that separate /usr without an initramfs is a
> >>> supported configuration, so yes, the previous council started this
> >>> issue.
> >>
> >> Sorry, but that's not an accurate account of what the council has
> >> decided on. What we voted on in the April 2012 meeting was this:
> >>
> >>    <ulm> The question is: "Decide on whether a separate /usr is still
> >>          a supported configuration."
> >  
> > Ulrich,
> > 
> >  I have read the log, and that is where the confusion is.
> > 
> >  If that is true, and I think folks would beg to differ, we can say that
> >  the way separate /usr is supported is via requiring an initramfs and
> >  move forward from there because that would still be within the
> >  council's requirement since there is now documentation on how to build
> >  an initramfs.
> > 
> > I know at least one council member who was at that meeting who would
> > strongly disagree and say that what you voted for was that separate
> > /usr, without an initramfs, is a supported configuration.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > William
> > 
> 
> Our official documentation for LVM2 explicitly advised users to use such
> configurations. Dropping support now will break existing systems
> unnecessarily.
> 
> Before anyone says to use a news item, let me say that publishing a news
> item to inform users that we decided to break their systems will not
> make it better.

I don't follow. The initramfs document [1] clearly points out that if
you have lvm you have to include it when you run genkernel, and we can't
move forward until a proper version of genkernel is stable.

William

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/initramfs-guide.xml

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