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 1RDr0o-0002bd-L2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F75521C03E; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADAA21C02D for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.4] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E6B741B4006 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E95200B.5060904@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:05:15 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a413d53301b91e7017f4b6b092115c92 On 10/11/2011 09:40 PM, 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. Are you aware of the simple linuxrc approach that I suggested here? http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml -- Thanks, Zac