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On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 12:18:25PM -0500, »Q« wrote
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400
> waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 07:11:31AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
> > 
> > > It was simply a recognition that we were already in a state where
> > > booting a system without /usr mounted early can cause problems.  
> > 
> > For certain edge cases... yes.  But they were already using
> > initramfs or merging /usr into /.  I'm talking about the 95% who
> > don't really need it.
> 
> Booting without /usr mounted early is something Gentoo already doesn't
> support and can't support, right?

  If you can read this post, you've got a mighty powerful imagination.
Because we all know that Gentoo can't boot, let alone send emails, from
a machine with separate /usr and no initramfs... just like I'm using
right now.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications