On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > >> > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper > >> initramfs in the handbook?" > >> > >> I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it > >> sucks. I have /var on a separate partition and want to put > >> /usr on one to but not now. > > > > Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev > > ever intended to do. > > > > /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel > > without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for > > Gentoo.... > I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on > its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. > Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It > downright sucks. > > You planning to explain this to the devs? Maybe you will have > better luck. They said it is a dev from Fedora that started this . > . . . crap. ;-)
I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
