On Mar 13, 2012 9:05 AM, "Mike Edenfield" <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > > From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM > > > I like that quote. I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess > > is not right. The only reason it is happening is because of one or two > > distros that push it to make it easier for themselves. > > If that's honestly what you think then I suspect you don't understand the problem as well as you believe. > > The idea of trying to launch udevd and initialize devices without the software, installed in /usr, which is required by those devices is a configuration that causes problems in many real-world, practical situations. > > The requirement of having /usr on the same partition as / is also a configuration that causes problems in many real-world, practical situations. >
I quite often read about this, and after some thinking, I have to ask: why? > The requirement to ensure that /usr is *somehow available* before launching udevd is a configuration that, I am told, causes problems in some specialized real-world, practical situations. (I am ignoring "problems" such as "initramd might possibly break maybe" or "that's more work than I want to do" as being the expected griping that always happens when you ask a group of geeks to change something.) > When one's handling enterprise servers, "might possibly break" is a 95% certainty of "you do that and I'll make sure to have a pink slip standing by." :-) Rgds,
