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 1S92fP-0001Fg-Iu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:04:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28E03E063D; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479DFE063E for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40221B401A for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:02:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.977 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.977 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.066, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1mSY1PdMMh5A for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BA9D1B4027 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S92e5-0002jr-3h for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:02:45 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-222-53-21.msy.bellsouth.net ([68.222.53.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:02:44 +0100 Received: from boxcars by adsl-68-222-53-21.msy.bellsouth.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:02:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:02:47 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20120317180247.40859daf@fuchsia.remarqs.net> References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-222-53-21.msy.bellsouth.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 611fecc4-2a60-4647-97c8-31b16a00fc56 X-Archives-Hash: ae968e526cd8ebdd75261baca65d1b64 On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:10:35 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > 4) I don't use a separate /usr so I don't need any of this. I suspect > most casual Gentoo users like me are pretty much the same. > > 4) I am going to look at doing a dual boot Gentoo install on some > system here at home to try this out. Damn, I don't have time for this > but what choice are they giving me. 4 ;) If your /usr doesn't have its own partition, you shouldn't need to sweat any of this. AIUI, only people with separate /usr need to either build an initrd or work out an alternative to udev.