-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2013 10:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> /usr/lib/udev..... /usr/lib/systemd..... >>> >>> were both placed in /usr despite objections from a number of >>> folks. >>> >>> So claims that udev and systemd are not responsible are not >>> true. > > Udev is installed in / in gentoo. I am a co-maintainer of udev and > that was fixed quite some time back, it is the Gentoo systemd team > that installs their version of udev in /usr. > > Installing udev or eudev, however, doesn't really solve the issue > though, because it is possible to run arbitrary programs from > within udev rules. > > Another unrelated concern is if you install a program in / that > needs to access something in /usr/share, this will be broken by not > having /usr mounted. This means that, for example, the locale logic > of most software can't work without /usr since it accesses files in > /usr/share/locale. > > William > I believe you misquoted. Greg said those things; I was merely quoting him. :)
You're right, though; it's a problem that lots of programs have. I guess it's the natural result of modular software that has interdependencies. You basically need *everything* available on boot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSSPLCAAoJEJUrb08JgYgHFaEH/ietryULwNCbYdoLYFNJXoT1 vjecOzD0nKxY/dN26X5nZfBuuLkN/SARdrk/xqlp7Fw4UKEuP6XwcJWSoP2/o8t7 TxdlbqAAxNGytOpUlqZmJd53c3pivD11PS467Iy4UsRmpH0TbOerqESi9lR+X7bI OR6ghVpOqkBrNjwNtSREOHjApjQ6h451bGHW2rHUUbOlzoOZYiIBCxBxsCYc/fEc jS8LbNioj9BeipRFeIAqr+LPhpPDq7KE3EA/tcOb2WT5ro0yy6MAAdoBJSRKiFmI woSKmEWgFVAa6eGJjTmTRTJjra0L9EWcxHSRDBBNuJTsV1AfMR8stRPD6+FUkaE= =b8AN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
