That is my impression as well. With that said, the behavior is currently the same between our FreeBSD and Linux variants. This change would break that.
On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Ben de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 October 2013 03:32, William Hubbs <[email protected]> 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 >
