Hey all, I have been advised to bring this topic back to the list before taking any action, so here it is.
First, I need to clarify what I'm *NOT* talking about. This discussion has nothing to do with whether or not you have the split-usr use flag turned on; all of us officially have that on because /bin, /lib* and /sbin are directories in the official Gentoo setup. In other words, I am *not* talking about forcing the /usr merge. Unfortunately, the concept of separate usr has gotten wrapped up in the split-usr use flag and doesn't have to be. For the record, I mean something very specific when I say "separate usr". I am talking about the situation where /usr is a mount point separate from /, so in this thread, let's stick to "separate usr" for that situation. I am *not* even saying that using separate usr is wrong or unsupported. You can even run separate usr with split-usr turned off if you would like to do so. Now for the use case I want to talk about, and that is using separate /usr without using an initramfs to boot your system and pre-mount /usr. If you do this, many things are broken, and this is why the binary distros all use an initramfs if you do this. This configuration is also unsupported officially in Gentoo [1] [2], and it is not shown as the example setup in our handbook. I want to hear from people who have / and /usr on separate partitions and who are not using an initramfs. If you are in this group, I have a very specific question. Why aren't you using an initramfs? Thanks, William [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130924-summary.txt [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=a79dd69b0cca439bc0c483c9193c79e0554819d0
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