> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:27 AM
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > > From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
>
> > > My question: what, technically, prevents me
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:26:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to
> > realize that the idea of "tiny partition that contains just what I
> > need to boot and mount /usr" is becoming "not so tiny" anymore. The
> > distinction between wh
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>
>> There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you can ensure that any
>> hard-coded paths to those binaries are updated properly.
>
> Surely this is the same, whether one co
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
> > My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
> > software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
> Nothing
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
[snip]
> As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to realize
> that the idea of "tiny partition that contains just what I need to boot and
> mount /usr" is becoming "not so tiny" anymore. The distinction between what
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
> My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
> software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
Nothing; in fact, this was the general solution to the problem of "something
else
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every
> executable into /usr. If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without
> special preperations. Nothing new here.
>
> The method usually discussed is to c
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