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 B527E1381F3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FE4AE0E0D; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4271E0DE1 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f54.google.com with SMTP id mz12so1658605bkb.27 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:59:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rm7yNIcyPPEYn0lG3ITZZOebL1XocGoaf1Y5CUFyc2U=; b=bXG4Bg9JcxrQdtQq74AQFCPgkIlnYZ0U69y3ZphQ9OJhjuz57ZRCXOjCdLkhb+pew2 t9UFE9yyLtSvoQX0TAzlYhufAgwR9mCoF0wl26z4PGIhjGiUeaxIMbFQ5Xgx/YGkhpxv QZzjRXowChlsl6thRThRdH22OPYuS4wZJnTdjyZBQrNefAJAPS9wiuluCQo5aESUNZ7W Dsr1ZPRs25pfsNQQ0JUF11kJn9/kdia95SXc7dRKd9WRUmqd3+gLQM8orFOKdJAisXso X+3pYffg5cytuRlIACnsxDd9iUSFL2vrJy3JN6a8Qj0n5ithHXRNF5MKmYdC7DCR+tBM 4oBA== X-Received: by 10.205.35.15 with SMTP id su15mr14083409bkb.21.1380452365474; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p3E9E68D2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [62.158.104.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id zl3sm9138381bkb.4.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5248080C.9040403@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:59:24 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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> <52476F97.9070200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52476F97.9070200@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e7e622d0-25fc-4714-9b08-c338a3d4e30d X-Archives-Hash: 12231fa137c2af370755639cace581e9 Am 29.09.2013 02:08, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > 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 > and a cluttered / is worse than a non-existant / and a cluttered /usr? Because we are just moving in that direction.