On 04/29/2012 12:04 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 28/04/12 23:44, Michał Górny wrote: >> I have already opened bugs for many of them. But the list will increase >> in time, and we'll either move a lot of libraries to /lib* or decide to >> go the other way. > > repeat after me EARLY BOOT, as in initramfs. In initramfs you don't have > /usr with everything there because you are supposed to mount it. If you > need something (e.g. a mount helper using libs living somewhere) you > need to put it there, if you don't have a way to be aware of which is > where then you'll have users experiencing problems. > > The proper way to fix it is either fix the programs or find replacement > that have less or no dependencies.
Maybe it's reasonable for the initramfs to utilize a config file from /etc of the future root filesystem, but having in depend on files from the future /usr seems like a strange idea. Wouldn't it make more sense to bundle all dependencies into the initramfs, so that it's mostly self-contained, rather than have it be dependent on files from the future root filesystem (or future /usr)? -- Thanks, Zac
