[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-30 Thread walt
On 08/27/2013 12:59 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: The GPL is in conflict with the law Joerg, which law are you talking about? I've never understood the problems surrounding the many and various available software licenses, and I don't think I ever will understand them. But I'm still trying :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-30 Thread walt
On 08/30/2013 04:05 PM, walt wrote: On 08/27/2013 12:59 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: The GPL is in conflict with the law Joerg, which law are you talking about? Oops, I see you've already answered my question. Please ignore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.08.2013 22:40, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 19/08/2013 16:20, Alecks Gates wrote: All I do is add one extra line (for example - dracut -H --kver=3.11.0-rc6) to my kernel install procedure. Precisely. It's not hard, it's actually almost automatable. It's vastly simpler than configuring

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 06:00, jo...@antarean.org wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 19, 2013 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: Here's a short, very in-comprehensive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 07:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 07:38, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 19, 2013 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was designed for hardware and architectures that haven't existed for 20+ years. Almost all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 20/08/2013 07:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java installers off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 20/08/2013 06:00, jo...@antarean.org wrote: I also still remember. Not going to mention it now. But will give a hint. What is the name of the computer that said: I'm sorry Dale, I can't let you do that.? bwahahahaha :-) Yes, we all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 08:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 20/08/2013 07:38, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 19, 2013 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was designed for hardware and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: I to have / on a traditional partition, ext4, and /boot on a small ext2 partition. Everything else is on LVM. I don't want a init thingy either. I had nightmares with that thing when I used Mandrake years ago. I can't recall the name of that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:54:25 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: 2001 was a good move and a good book too (just finished both again as it turns out). 2010 doesn't quite match up though... The book and movie were done at the same time, if I remember correctly. There's also a book about how the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:44:41 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for each kernel, using the currently installed versions of the various tools. Yes, it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:41:12 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: And those adding screen/tmux into the mix can become truly unbearable... When working remotely on a console, I always use screen. Been bitten too often by dodgy links that it is a sane safety feature. Same here. My .zshrc starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-19 10:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Why can't you make it work separately after 205? Because 205 is a MAJOR VERSION BUMP on an actively developed program. 205 is a major version bump over ... 204? Surely you jest?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 12:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:44:41 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for each kernel, using the currently installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:21 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Not really, because make is intelligent enough to no bother recompiling anything for which the source has not changed. True, but why recompile the kernel just to redo the initramfs? As mentioned, I don't update/recompile the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 12:51, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 10:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Why can't you make it work separately after 205? Because 205 is a MAJOR VERSION BUMP on an actively developed program. 205 is a major version bump over ... 204? Surely you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: I to have / on a traditional partition, ext4, and /boot on a small ext2 partition. Everything else is on LVM. I don't want a init thingy either. I had nightmares with that thing when I used Mandrake years ago. I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 11:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:54:25 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: 2001 was a good move and a good book too (just finished both again as it turns out). 2010 doesn't quite match up though... The book and movie were done at the same time, if I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-20 8:22 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:21 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Not really, because make is intelligent enough to no bother recompiling anything for which the source has not changed. True, but why recompile the kernel just to redo the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-19 4:54 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/2013 18:39, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For your other question, you don't need an initramfs if your /usr is not split off and drivers for your fs on / and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:08:02 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: That depends on your needs. The reason I do it this way is so that the initramfs is locked to the kernel. Once that kernel boots, it will always boot because the initramfs cannot be changed. If I make a change to the initramfs, that's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 16:08, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-20 8:22 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:21 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Not really, because make is intelligent enough to no bother recompiling anything for which the source has not changed. True, but why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:08:02 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: The main thing about this whole initramfs thing is, like Dale, I just don't understand it. I understand grub and grub.conf. I understand enough about compiling a kernel to be able to get it done and be reasonably sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 16:08, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 4:54 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/2013 18:39, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For your other question, you don't need an initramfs if your /usr is not split

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:37:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Do you see the pattern, your lack of understanding is not a failing of the software? This is not a technological point, or even a political one, it is about being outside of your comfort zone. Using Gentoo is an exercise in expanding your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:37:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Do you see the pattern, your lack of understanding is not a failing of the software? This is not a technological point, or even a political one, it is about being outside of your comfort zone. Using Gentoo is an exercise in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:16:31 -0500, Dale wrote: You missed my whole point. You can't claim it is because it is new and outside my comfort zone because even tho grub2 was new to me, it was not outside my comfort zone. Grub2 is very little like the old grub. It is just plain outright new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 05:42, Daniel Campbell wrote: As a budding programmer I understand that a lot of the functionality that users take for granted in sysvinit scripts is hacked together and prone to bash upgrades breaking them sysvinit scripts have ended up where almost every large project that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/19/2013 12:52 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread pk
On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote: Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may have to reconsider some things myself here. Yes, that is my understanding as well. But the decision to not support a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote: Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may have to reconsider some things myself here. Yes, that is my understanding as well. But the decision to not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 11:31, pk wrote: On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote: Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may have to reconsider some things myself here. Yes, that is my understanding as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Stroller
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/2013 11:31, pk wrote: On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote: Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread pk
On 2013-08-19 08:35, Alan McKinnon wrote: sysvinit, like X11, needs a massive overhaul and a sprint clean. Yes, an overhaul is always welcome. But most people criticising these systems (and other systems) just say that they are bad without pointing out what is bad. How can you fix something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 14:13, pk wrote: sysvinit, like X11, needs a massive overhaul and a sprint clean. Yes, an overhaul is always welcome. But most people criticising these systems (and other systems) just say that they are bad without pointing out what is bad. How can you fix something without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread pk
On 2013-08-19 04:55, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Probably for exactly the same reason you or anyone else uses Gentoo; USE flags, portage, you can customize at your hearts content... USE flags, in my mind, are there for minimising dependencies so that I don't need to install all the crap that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-19 6:04 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that separate /usr is broken - it's not. The issue is a separate /usr without an initramfs. And the issue ONLY occurs at early-boot time. And so, if this is the way it goes, this is the way it goes. As long as I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, putting aside systemd and getting back on topic to the council's decision of (eventually) not supporting separated /usr without an initramfs; have you ever stopped to consider that, perhaps, that's the best *technical*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/08/13 18:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 15:23, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 6:04 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that separate /usr is broken - it's not. The issue is a separate /usr without an initramfs. And the issue ONLY occurs at early-boot time. And so, if this is the way it goes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 15:36, William Kenworthy wrote: I still have not seen an adequate explanation as to why systemd isn't a profile as its far more intrusive than a gnome/kde choice and they have profiles. That way some bad choices like polluting systems with systemd files because they are only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alecks Gates
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, putting aside systemd and getting back on topic to the council's decision of (eventually) not supporting separated /usr without an initramfs;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, putting aside systemd and getting back on topic to the council's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread pk
On 2013-08-19 12:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's not that separate /usr is broken - it's not. I know. The issue is a separate /usr without an initramfs. And the issue ONLY occurs at early-boot time. It is broken for *some* systems. The problem is that with modern hardware much code that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alecks Gates
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread thegeezer
On 08/19/2013 03:37 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For me, I'm not opposed to merging /usr. I'm not opposed to other people using systemd, I am opposed to*me* using it. Agreed, and that is precisely the concern here... For your other question, you don't need an initramfs if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I rather suspect that they are going after the cloud/VM market ... having VM's boot quickly and simply along with no desire/need to fault find and repair ... just rm it and spin up another instance. Nothing to 'suspect'... they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 19/08/13 at 09:36pm, William Kenworthy wrote: So why not a profile so those guys who want to play can get a configuration that better suits them? - and vice versa if the whole systemd push dies and Redhat drops it as I doubt anyone else big enough will pick it up (they have a foot in both

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:17 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-19 04:55, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Probably for exactly the same reason you or anyone else uses Gentoo; USE flags, portage, you can customize at your hearts content... USE flags, in my mind, are there for minimising

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I rather suspect that they are going after the cloud/VM market ... having VM's boot quickly and simply along with no desire/need to fault find and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, putting aside systemd and getting back on topic to the council's decision of (eventually) not supporting separated /usr without an initramfs;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread pk
On 2013-08-19 19:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: snipped a whole lot of bollocks I'm beginning to think you are a troll since you consistently misinterpret what I'm trying to say. This is the last thing I will say in this matter: Your technical arguments are bogus. Yes, I agree that my point is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:55 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-19 19:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: snipped a whole lot of bollocks I'm beginning to think you are a troll since you consistently misinterpret what I'm trying to say. This is the last thing I will say in this matter:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 19:03, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 19/08/13 at 09:36pm, William Kenworthy wrote: So why not a profile so those guys who want to play can get a configuration that better suits them? - and vice versa if the whole systemd push dies and Redhat drops it as I doubt anyone else big enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread joost
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/2013 14:13, pk wrote: sysvinit, like X11, needs a massive overhaul and a sprint clean. Yes, an overhaul is always welcome. But most people criticising these systems (and other systems) just say that they are bad without pointing out what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 16:20, Alecks Gates wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's so hard and/or complicated about making an initramfs? At this point in time it's extremely simple for me, but I only manage relatively simple systems (although I'd like that to change soon). All I do is add one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was designed for hardware and architectures that haven't existed for 20+ years. Almost all factors that made X11 awesome in the 80s and 90s simply are not there anymore. X11 was still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 18:39, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-19 9:36 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For me, I'm not opposed to merging /usr. I'm not opposed to other people using systemd, I am opposed to*me* using it. Agreed, and that is precisely the concern here... For your other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/08/2013 16:33, pk wrote: Using an initramfs means you duplicate parts of your OS and copy them into the kernel or using a tool (like dracut or genkernel). If you need it from a technical point of view (bluetooth keyboard), that's fine but if I don't have any hardware that requires it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/08/13 22:20, Alecks Gates wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: ... Can someone please explain to me what's so hard and/or complicated about making an initramfs? At this point in time it's extremely simple for me, but I only manage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:30:16 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: The files within the initramfs generation tool are compiled using different tool than portage, they are not updated when distribution is updated, and they are not even at same version within portage tree. It may be acceptable for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:11:46 +0100, thegeezer wrote: i almost would like to request tighter integration between portage/kernel building/initrd The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for each kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left with just the best remote interface ever - ssh and bash. So I can afford to be smug :-) Those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 19, 2013 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 08/19/2013 12:52 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread joost
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, August 19, 2013 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 23:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/08/2013 16:33, pk wrote: Using an initramfs means you duplicate parts of your OS and copy them into the kernel or using a tool (like dracut or genkernel). If you need it from a technical point of view (bluetooth keyboard), that's fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was designed for hardware and architectures that haven't existed for 20+ years. Almost all factors that made X11 awesome in the 80s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left with just the best remote interface ever -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:11:46 +0100, thegeezer wrote: i almost would like to request tighter integration between portage/kernel building/initrd The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it the location of the config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Alessio Ababilov
2013/8/18 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com I tend to agree. And I still wonder why it's called /usr merge if it only affects /bin and /sbin. If it's really a merge, shouldn't /lib also be affected? Sure, /lib is affected. This was the idea of FreeDesktop.org's article

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Alessio Ababilov
2013/8/18 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/18/2013 03:53 AM, Alessio Ababilov wrote: 2013/8/18 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us mailto:li...@sporkbox.us On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net mailto:andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread pk
On 2013-08-18 11:44, Daniel Campbell wrote: Systemd has a monolithic design, is headed by an egotist with no respect for other developers, and cannibalizes other projects. The projects it can't cannibalize will be strongarmed into irrelevance. Couple this with Red Hat employees working on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-18 4:40 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, /lib is affected. This was the idea of FreeDesktop.org's article http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/, and so does my script. And so the /usr merge is part and parcel of systemd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 18 Aug 2013 20:37:19 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-18 4:40 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, /lib is affected. This was the idea of FreeDesktop.org's article http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/, and so does my script.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread pk
On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are RHL dictating what path Debian and its cousin distros should follow?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are RHL dictating what path Debian and its cousin distros

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread microcai
在 2013-8-19 上午5:55,pk pete...@coolmail.se写道: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are RHL dictating what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:54 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are RHL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/18/2013 09:39 PM, microcai wrote: 在 2013-8-19 上午5:55,pk pete...@coolmail.se mailto:pete...@coolmail.se写道: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only developer available to the Linux world? Are RHL

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Andreas Eder
On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many different system configurations out there and Gentoo is famous for supporting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread staticsafe
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/08/13 21:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Hi Alessio. I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to ebuilds. I described it in an article