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 CC7C61381FB for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45C3821C00C; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (mail-ob0-f178.google.com [209.85.214.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6040821C00C for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id eh20so9681069obb.37 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:21:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qwQsg6pfE6h5EQ+FquXIiZ44Tz8xkqAbVb7GETepYJ0=; b=1IIUhaZu0xQup3e5fczJMBKmZURtf4yAbk7oPfjhjGkFCiszAUvA2oAyaQA1FeVS5i 1qib0S+0oAr1ZFdm66r8g58Vjm1PMAiC1zfNQW2JIoVaY4oxit5r/Qrrgf4gU7puGkAh Hb7oZ7twDTd8LjYalOJ3i1m9D26UYdaOafvVPIoMLTOqtF9fwctP0v05FVzzcA8vNnUh w+VlbIl9rM3Xh4tSYffYxML0k3YhK4TNqDounpPiuUPa9WYa92bo0OnuaLJK6rfHQkzz FNVzHo9SF1GDgGMcgKp0UrE+ZpTOTcvboBnh+WbTVUKkk7mLlza3Mc92UEBRbdOlp2K8 P+Ng== 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 Received: by 10.182.207.70 with SMTP id lu6mr26913160obc.78.1356704511542; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.20.243 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:21:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <214424.84179.bm@smtp150.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <87txrd6pb3.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121224204817.335033c6@khamul.example.com> <50D8B467.4080100@gmail.com> <20121224230413.GL26547@server> <20121224182907.2bf6d3d6@fuchsia.remarqs.net> <20121225020301.GP26547@server> <50D911A6.6070500@gmail.com> <50DB612F.1030603@gmail.com> <394214.69462.bm@smtp149.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <214424.84179.bm@smtp150.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:21:51 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6ffdbdfe-bef6-4684-9b3d-86eb41413c11 X-Archives-Hash: e6ca1dba11b2db818c162da320f0ea0e On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> > Should perl be in / or /usr? >> >> Now that is a good question, if only because Perl traditionally _loathes_ >> being in /bin, for its own philosophical reasons. >> > > >> Now, as a practical matter? WTF are the scripts written in Perl? Or in >> anything other than sh? If they're intended for emergency use, they've got >> some pretty fat dependencies, and should probably be launched from a full >> rescue environment instead. Or the log files should be copied to some place >> with more featureful tools available. > > > Can perl be built statically and moved to / by the admin for this > corner case? Certainly, but you still have modules to consider...but those can of course be bundled. > > If not you should have all the tools to fix /usr in root and then if > anything needs fixing via perl then you should be able to mount /usr or > mount -a and have a fully working single user system to run perl from. Indeed. The only reason I can imagine this to not be the case is if the mount for /usr fails. Most of the reasons imaginable also apply equally strongly to initramfs+root-on-special-mount and everything-in-/usr. -- :wq