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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:36:55 +0100 (CET)
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net> wrote:

> :2012-02-07T11:16:Ladislav Hagara:
> 
> > any plan with /usr merge [1]?
> > Personally I don't like it but I am a realist. We have no chance to
> > change the upstream.
> > New versions of crucial upstream packages rely on /usr merge.
> > Do we want to use devel-udev-kmod git branch by the same way as
> > devel-xorg-modular or we plan to integrate it soon?
> 
> As this is only a Fedora idiocy I see no reason to follow it at all.
> 
> -- 
> Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
> Source Mage GNU/Linux Games/Xorg grimoire guru
> Re-Alpine Coordinator http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/
> Geek/Hacker/Tinker
> 
> Waiting for the computer to reboot. ®

I agree with ruskie and would like to point to this part of the link Ladislav
included in his mail:

        Today, a separate /usr partition already must be mounted by the
        initramfs during early boot, thus making the justification for a
        split-off moot. In addition a lot of tools in /bin and /sbin in the
        status quo already lost the ability to run without a pre-mounted /usr.

We don't insist on using an initramfs and everything needed to boot is 
available
without /usr mounted. I see no reason to give up /usr on a separate partition
or even over the network, just because somebody had a brainfart.

Arjan Bouter

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