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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012
From:       Luca Barbato <lu_zero () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2012-04-29 23:38:15
Message-ID: 4F9DD0E7.90403 () gentoo ! org
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On 29/04/12 15:40, Zac Medico wrote:
> Maybe it's reasonable for the initramfs to utilize a config file from
> /etc of the future root filesystem, but having in depend on files from
> the future /usr seems like a strange idea. Wouldn't it make more sense
> to bundle all dependencies into the initramfs, so that it's mostly
> self-contained, rather than have it be dependent on files from the
> future root filesystem (or future /usr)?

Well it is a bit unreasonable even rely on foreign /etc.

The root problem is that what you want to use for early boot should not
have huge deps and that assumption fails for a number of reasons, I
guess mostly due the fact who writes some software doesn't expect it to
be run on early boot =\

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero


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