From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBBC59CB1 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4400A21C064; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55EAF21C009 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.130] (CPE002401f30b73-CM78cd8ec1b205.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.138.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B3E6D34087E for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: usr merge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <57087E0D.3090502@gmail.com> <20160409053230.GA16529@waltdnes.org> <20160409160938.GA17530@waltdnes.org> <20160409121825.7739c5fc@sepulchrave.remarqs> From: Ian Stakenvicius Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:21:08 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20160409121825.7739c5fc@sepulchrave.remarqs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 79e158b3-8c5c-42a9-9281-9aa91b17b65e X-Archives-Hash: 3737fb86a13e5009d9aa007e189e8412 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 09/04/16 01:18 PM, »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? > > It still works for a number of basic cases, but per the Council's decision quite a while ago, dev's have zero obligation to ensure it continues to work -- in effect this means it can break at any time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlcLstQACgkQAJxUfCtlWe2I+AEAyVX2Zh8YDbbCfTtCJ8C3Y1Gk 8OX3on1uKDCFeybThAgA/3g/uI2WyPhdayARsNNGQuX8tD+ejv/mpZjY2UUJPSpv =3e1w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----