On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>>
>>> I know. It's the "I want to get the rid of initramfs" thing that looks
>>> crazy to me.
>>
>> No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are
>> not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one.
>>
>>
>
> You got that right.  I have not used one since I started using Gentoo.
 Now, I may very well have to start.  I hope mdev gets to a point where it
works really well on desktop systems.
>

You were there in the thread linked by Walt, udev is just one of several
packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during
boot.

And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin...

I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's
still a war against the RH braindeadness...

Rgds,