On 19 August 2013, at 10:31, pk wrote: > ... The problem I have, as an engineer, is > that "everybody" says that a separate /usr is broken, that sysvinit is > broken without explaining why. In order to fix a problem you need to > know what is broken... Here's a short, very in-comprehensive list of software we are aware of that currently are not able to provide the full set of functionality when /usr is split off and not pre-mounted at boot: udev-pci-db/udev-usb-db and all rules depending on this (using the PCI/USB database in /usr/share), PulseAudio, NetworkManager, ModemManager, udisks, libatasmart, usb_modeswitch, gnome-color-manager, usbmuxd, ALSA, D-Bus, CUPS, Plymouth, LVM, hplip, multipath, Argyll, VMWare, the locale logic of most programs and a lot of other stuff. [1]
I honestly don't have a horse in this race, I don't much care one way or the other. I tend to like things "the old fashioned way", I like things simple, and I like to keep doing things the way I know. I hate the whole initrd thing, but I tend to slap most everything on a single partition, anyway. I could be persuaded either way, were there compelling arguments, but you just undermine your own position by pretending that the reasons for the migration are somehow fictional. Stroller. [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/
