Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should >> it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to >> resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a >> init thingy > Is that really true? Do you _really_ care whether an 'init thingy' exists > on your system, or is this energy about it really based in something else? > > I'm just not understanding the resistance so I'm curious. > > I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making > my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by > hand and populating them with files and then compressing it. All that > drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably is with the > right tools which I haven't found. > > But I'm not understanding why you are so against it in totality. It would > be one thing to say that it's too much work. That I understand, but not > wanting one seems a bit overboard to me... > > - Mark > >
One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo. The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The reason I do not want one is because it adds one more point of failure. In my past experience, it failed me a lot on Mandriva. I don't want to go backwards to failure. I want to keep moving forward, which is why I chose Gentoo, no init thingy needed unless you put / on something like LVM or encrypt it or something. That is why I put everything but /boot and / on LVM here, to avoid having to use a init thingy. I have done a lot to avoid that thing then it turns out, someone is trying to push it on me anyway. If I am forced to use a init thingy, the first time it fails and I can't fix it, I'm moving to something else. If I want a broken init thingy, I can find something else that suites my needs. I've said it before, I love Gentoo but I'm not going to reinstall or otherwise spend hours trying to fix something that I shouldn't need to to begin with and never needed before. Just saying. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
