On 28/09/2013 13:32, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: >> No really,*why exactly*? > > Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first > set this system up many years ago.
This was something almost all of us recommended way back then. Lord only knows why we recommeded that. Maybe it was small drives (which didn't have), maybe it was different mount options (which I never did and never saw anyone else do either), or maybe it was for thin clients (which I only ever saw in use once - Shuttleworth labs in University of Cape Town). So why did we all (and I included myself) recommend this so much? Dude, I have no idea, but I *think* we were cargo-culting more than any other single factor. > I have no philosophical reason reason to stick with it, only a (maybe > irrational) fear of breaking things if I attempt to merge it back into /. > > This, combined with an intense (also maybe irrational) desire to avoid > like the plague using an initramfs, is why this decision to FORCE me > into a position of possibly having to break my system (either by a filed > attempt at merging /usr into /, or a failed attampt at using an initramfs). No-one is forcing you to do anything, the news item did not say that. It says that if you do it, the devs will not support you and you are on your own. It also says that in the dev's opinion, the day when you can no longer support it either is probably not too far away > I too sincerely hope eudev bypasses this issue. This has nothing to do with eudev, not with udev > The main thing about this that pisses me off is the lack of enough > warning... one month? Really? One month to compleyelt rebuild a seerver > that has been running flawlessly for many years, just because someone > doesn't like something that has been done for many years? First, it is not one month, it is much longer. We've all been whinging about the issue for most of this year. Two, why do you think you need to rebuild the entire machine? You don't need to do that just to merge two filesystems. To merge two filesystems, you just merge two filesystems. You don't rebuild anything. You might have some downtime though Please see the news item for what it actually is, not something else. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
