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 1RC0z5-000760-N9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:20:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EADA521C106; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 03:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E671221C02F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 03:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk30 with SMTP id 30so4442221yxk.40 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:19:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zYliexdzvBNBmlZ54Y6oGQuJqYJLNQ8HGhNu3la8AeE=; b=P12M9jqqvC0wWGNtSsbsOHTixowGcn2jTlpB8jKs6xw+LA41lwGCbGWzSzpUeX86VO bbjHeUWXZmknHZwfh3KOqqzfoP5t8lgIMP38KK8UknwnufL3x4tQb4U6C9ImmFxydHKz JBgS5HqodflXMhYYX62xWn6DklCxREtsJb33s= Received: by 10.100.243.31 with SMTP id q31mr1076849anh.100.1317957568185; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-215-244.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.215.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h20sm20736136ani.16.2011.10.06.20.19.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8E6FB9.9040504@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:19:21 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <4E8E0112.3010208@orlitzky.com> <4E8E04B3.6080906@gmail.com> <201110062122.05522.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201110062122.05522.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cb92aaae35408cc4d1aa307debd7d661 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 20:42:43 Dale wrote: >> Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: >>>> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not being >>>> used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it with >>>> passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it again and >>>> the process will repeat. >>> But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks every >>> week? >>> >>> This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend a good >>> eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting it. In >>> the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will work exactly >>> how it does now. >>> >>> If Grub were the only package to do this -- fine, whatever. But next >>> week it will be something else. I don't know what my point is, but it >>> feels good to bitch about it. >> This is how I feel about the initramfs thingy and /usr and /var. What >> is next? I am pretty sure it will be something tho. > I share your pain. :-( > > I'm not sure if this a sign of me getting (even) older, or Linux maturing and > in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more and more > for mainstream ignoramuses. :p > I was thinking more like windoze really. If windoze starts having mount points like Linux, things could start changing. ^_^ Think about it, windoze currently has to have its stuff on the C drive and Linux can be spread out over many drives and you can mount things wherever you want. Linux is going the way of windoze then windoze would be going the way of Linux. Weird huh? Dale :-) :-)