On 14 October 2013 03:32, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > All, > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > > If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout create > this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but what about > on systems that are already installed? Should we send out a news item > and have everyone convert their /etc/mtab manually or find a way to > automate that? > > William > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498
I don't see a compelling case being made for why we should make this change apart from "all the other distros are doing it", and quite a few reasons why we shouldn't. I'm open to being convinced, so please tell me why this is good for Gentoo users. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer
