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 1RkCVW-0007YA-Ue for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:31:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4334A21C127; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092C021C11D for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm12 with SMTP id m12so3183832wer.40 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:30:39 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.216.139.94 with SMTP id b72mr7549467wej.38.1326105038762; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:30:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.227.199.5 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 02:30:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120109092212.18c6dc5e@pomiocik.lan> References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <4F0A1FAD.4040903@gentoo.org> <20120109092212.18c6dc5e@pomiocik.lan> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 02:30:38 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: H3n43L4maUHO58BNqQRU13lVsvo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: xmw@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 70a95f20-40c4-419b-addc-80a5c96eaffd X-Archives-Hash: e403b434924d2302909b5f7621a09e24 On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:58:53 +0100 > Michael Weber wrote: > >> Concern is to sustain the freedom of choice that brought me to Gentoo. >> >> Please provide systemd as an option. >> And provide sysvinit/openrc as an option. >> Do __not__ make an initrd mandatory. > > And I'd like to have the freedom of having a clean rootfs and system > free of random static executables needed to mount /usr with random > filesystems. > > Static linking is IMHO worse than making _initramfs_ mandatory. > Or maybe do you have method to force rebuilds of packages dependant > on static libraries? Do you have a method to force rebuilds of the initramfs? The argument you used against static linking was that my statically linked binary has a library with a data corruption bug and thus when I go to rescue my machine I might inadvertently delete everything. How is having the library in my initramfs any different (even dynamically linked?) -A > > -- > Best regards, > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny