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 1S8zxc-0006Cs-Q2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:10:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29569E0417; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7CEE0417 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so431105wgb.10 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:09:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=DhYbSFYTUv1jjG88S6sM+WzsbOn2hl4OmkX8h/uQ4iw=; b=JtJZeXBKaTV4TuGyGn7CmwwHQCIHw6vg2wuzFuYxo6WmIdMz6tKC8Jd+A0VMxgXhf6 HWSL8LNrnjrvHROReneIuLkkAuJNXpzuKuAnxe61naPcbLCr9U4++3Scckude4DecJMb mLqCAA/H1cvjSJ9wuo0zGG9ui9zfWlbyuwGaI2iV6DFfdoJcpQ6UEEYDfJ3FCAxxFnkw wYJiyWs/u8XetEdqNEhsFKvPAMA+Uctlc4eb5mfVCnd09byxe22Ta7TvDBbhPcViBtaM +3rGp7zNIYzdG6vLC9PgV+5jKJpnoqtR6dbkhxf4/IU5iEUr2RYU8vLmgaugDnQY5HWg FsCw== Received: by 10.180.105.194 with SMTP id go2mr8032440wib.22.1332014961822; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC60178.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.1.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p10sm16269814wic.0.2012.03.17.13.09.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:09:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:09:14 +0100 Message-ID: <4189454.mV9j5rxc4s@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.21; KDE/4.8.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <1799394.mohVsQjc44@localhost> <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> 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-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Archives-Salt: 51e43e49-3602-4bf0-9db5-e62ed5698aa1 X-Archives-Hash: 6312c050170712b3cf6593189289261d Am Samstag, 17. M=E4rz 2012, 20:40:02 schrieb pk: > On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don= 't see > > any reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empt= y. So > > what? Put everything on one partition and go on. >=20 > Yes, let's do away with partitions altogether, who needs them? Let's > also get rid of directories, and come to think of it, let's put > everything into one binary file (kernel + userspace)! Perhaps we can > call it "initeverything"? Nice and tidy! Oh, better yet, let's put it= > into the firmware (may need to expand current flash ROM though), that= > way we can do away with harddrives (saving stuff in the volatile memo= ry > instead)! >=20 > W00t? >=20 > > I will not use an initramfs if I can get away with it. >=20 > See above... >=20 > PS. Keep this email away from Poettering and Sievert; don't want to g= ive > them any ideas! >=20 > Best regards >=20 > Peter K, sarcasm trainee seriously, you have seemed to miss some news. There is a move by redhat= &co to=20 move almost everything from / to /usr. With nothing left than some moun= tpoints=20 - why put / on its own partition? There is nothing to contain apart fro= m /etc.=20 Your sarcasm fails because you think that there is an intrinsic reason = to keep=20 / seperate. Well, with / filled with usefull binaries to bring a hosed = system=20 back from the garbage pile that was true for some peole. But with the c= urrent=20 movement there isn't anything there at all.=20 --=20 #163933