All, In the meeting today (24-Sep-2013), the council agreed that all preparations for dropping support for Linux systems with /usr on a separate file system that do not use an initramfs are complete.
I am submitting this news item for review, and I plan to commit it on 2013-09-27 if there are no major issues with it. On behalf of the council, William
Title: Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs Author: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-09-27 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 In the meeting on 24-Sep-2013, the Gentoo Council agreed that all preparations for dropping support for Linux systems with /usr on a separate file system that do not use an initramfs are complete. Therefore, starting on 01-Nov-2013, we will consider this configuration to be unsupported. This means if you have a separate /usr configuration, it is important to convert to using an initramfs. If you do not convert and you upgrade packages on or after 01-Nov-2013, you will, at some point, find that your system is unbootable. For more information on creating an initramfs, see the following URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs/HOWTO
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