On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:59:09PM -0400, Damien Levac wrote > > > Seriously... how many people run Bluetooth keyboards on Gentoo > > anyways? > > That you ask such a question is concerning to me. Are we > discriminating against normal desktop users now?
Here's the item that really bugs me... before - many people successfully used separate /usr, without initramfs. A few edge cases, e.g. people with bluetooth keyboards, had to use initramfs if they wanted a separate /usr. The poor darlings felt left out because they had to do extra setup work, versus the other 95%. now - an arbitrary decree comes down that *EVERYBODY* who wants a separate /usr needs to have initramfs. * IT DOES NOT MAKE THINGS ANY EASIER FOR THE ORIGINAL 5% EDGE CASES *. But the other 95% who could run separate /usr are now being told they must run initramfs "just because". What does it accomplish? BTW, I'm still running a separate /usr without initramfs, and no related problems; thank you. If I decided to go to an edge-case setup (e.g. Bluetooth keyboard, or ell partitions encrypted) then I could understand being asked to run initramfs. This is reminiscent of the "Mozilla Mentality", where everybody is forced to the lowest common denominator. Yes, a desktop GUI sucks on a tablet/smartphone; I get it. So Firefox was saddled with the smartphone-oriented Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis GUI, which sucks on a desktop. That was the last straw that drove me to Pale Moon. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
