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 267681381F3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32F66E0D8E; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com (mail-wg0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1827EE0D29 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id m15so4139198wgh.33 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:13:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ViZ3RVD23EmH9nLzKTjqsA9hBN+zvf7dFePaDLpGWfc=; b=Wcunr9VQyrHpVMyaxzBpcinmLM2Bnd6aZmaSelH+dqxHafG8APJfzNjKsgt4LV0a2t KTf/nTFs6eaos5pO5JRDk1MJEXT2pzEKVFPWcGUh7ZpykfNd7/w4i40V0bKQrMtw1beT T9NGoTXJrAykomHEnNKanHJ5+SJLdKnCbrtlayWXbCXN20NKN+XNQhQfQvO/oblkEvfI FCYxzpmlz8dFfRXJwuh8vo+9fk3MoYx0rRdCKcfuq1UkeHDmfte0MdiPiRaTM+YdDvY7 1fEOrGmfnJboeg/aAGnUkiEyx9GkQuu+iWHahJSlpBMo2RmuOJC96Bwu4+cwq6JfXqUu dxjA== X-Received: by 10.194.89.233 with SMTP id br9mr11342163wjb.15.1380413604810; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-33.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ey4sm10794627wic.11.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52476F97.9070200@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 02:08:55 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <524759FB.2090304@gmail.com> <524764E1.9030509@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <524764E1.9030509@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 53ae1707-2c0c-40d7-9abc-4b2f2da70c07 X-Archives-Hash: 3dfc8911ffc6e245a7ce83b99d072c40 On 29/09/2013 01:23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> It *really* is that simple. If you have a better solution than my last >> > two choices, then I am all ears. >> > >> > > the correct and simple solution would be to deprecate /usr and move > everything into / . > > I did consider that, but gave up on the idea as not workable. Sure, it would work great and did work very well for Android and MacOS, both controlled environments. But doing it gains you nothing really apart from a crap load of stuff cluttering up /, thinks like local, games and share. But hey, maybe we can go right back to the originsl and put /home where it started: /usr/people -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com