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 1RFCOd-0002JF-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:08:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3C5121C0DC; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9633E0540 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.4] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 355C11B400C for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E9A0414.7030603@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:07:16 -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> <1318518871.3885.3.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20111013180547.4973defa@googlemail.com> <4416149.yvcg9DIAd9@pc> <4E994AEF.5030002@mailstation.de> In-Reply-To: <4E994AEF.5030002@mailstation.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 699172fbbb3358b321f3635e482f335c On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >> in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? > > We don't support /usr on a separate partition. People can, of course, do > that and I'll point them to dracut for creating an initramfs. > > Or they can do whatever works for them. People using Exherbo are > expected to be able to deal with such stuff. I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1 -- Thanks, Zac