On 2013-08-30 10:28 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
udev/eudev has nothing to do with it. It's the init systems (as in
both systemd and OpenRC) the ones that are pushing/have pushed for
dropping support for it. In Gentoo, the move is being championed by
William Hubs:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2946
He's the OpenRC maintainer. NOBODY who has actually worked on the
problem wants to support a separate /usr without an initramfs, because
it makes no sense.
Please stop making such false statements.
It only makes no sense because of *other* decisions being made that want
to force files critical to booting to be placed into /usr.
There is no *philosophical* reason that it 'makes no sense.
So it doesn't matter if you use udev, eudev, mdev or even a static
/dev directory; no init system wants to support a separate /usr
without an initramfs.
Just fyi... the *only* problem that I have with this is that I have an
*existing* system that has a separate /usr, and it only has that
separate /usr because when I followed the original gentoo installation
handbook back in 2003 or so, it actually had a separate /usr in the
example directory structure layout, so I thought it was the official
gentoo *recommendation* to do it that way.
If I wasn't in this predicament, I'd just make a mental note to never
install /usr to a separate partition and be done with it.
And for a good reason: is braindead.
Again - it is only braindead if you accept the basic premise that it
'makes sense' to put files critical to the boot process into /usr.
Personally, I think it only 'makes sense' to put files critical to the
boot process into <gasp!> /boot.
