Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Summary Council meeting: Tuesday 11 December 2012

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

Firstly I use your longlasting 3.2 kernel currently though perhaps not
for long as I'm switching distro to avoid systemd and thank you for
the LTS work, however that won't stop me speaking my mind.
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> > Greg, can you write back to this message with specific examples of what
> > would need to be customized so that separate /usr would work  right
> > without an initramfs? I have tried to explain multiple times that this
> > is a mis-conception that udev caused it, but I am getting nowhere.  
> 
> It's not my job to do this, nor yours, or fix any of these issues.  It's
> up to the people who wish to keep a separate /usr partition without an
> initramfs to do this work.


So even though you keep stating things without being specific like
udev is not a blocker, you have just admitted that the udev package
does violate the Filesystem Hiearchical Standard as well as the latest
draft when installing. I can understand following the current trend
(some of which I agreed with) but what is the justification for that
which didn't already have an optional solution?

It's not your job?. I'd hope your unix spirit or atleast professionalism
would be greater than this and realise that helping may save good devs
time more than it costs you and realise that the generic goals may not
be everyone's or even the long lasting correct ones and competition is
good and not intended as a kick in the teeth or insult.



p.s. embedded does not equal mobile and android uses a leaner init
than /sbin/init and experiments posted to the buildroot list found
systemd to be slower, guessed to be due to increased cycles but perhaps
memory usage on even some mobile level processors which accounts for a
fraction of linux potential in embedded applications. POSIX compliance
is also a requirement by some major industries.

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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'

(Doug McIlroy)
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