Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:31 PM, pk wrote: >> On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some >>> random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:31 PM, pk wrote: > On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some >> random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to >> work out fine that is broken. >> >> It just happened to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.10.2013 01:21, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): > El 30/09/13 00:47, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: >> Am 29.09.2013 18:41, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): >>> El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: Ohh and BTW, /usr was not just added because someone added a harddrive, in most cases it was used to allow machines contain a very small system >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: >>> Ohh and BTW, /usr was not just added because someone added a harddrive, >>> in most cases it was used to allow machines contain a very small system >>> on / which was enough to just boot and mount a networked syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 30/09/13 00:47, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: > Am 29.09.2013 18:41, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): >> El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: >>> Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:05:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > If *something1* at boot time requires access to *something2* at boot > > time that isn't available then I would say that *something1* is broken > > by design not the *something2*. > > What about the case where *something2* *USED TO BE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:40:45PM +0200, pk wrote > If *something1* at boot time requires access to *something2* at boot > time that isn't available then I would say that *something1* is broken > by design not the *something2*. What about the case where *something2* *USED TO BE AVAILABLE, BUT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread pk
On 2013-09-30 09:32, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I never mentioned /var at all. > > Go back and read again what I did write. I'm quite aware what you wrote. If you only read what I wrote... English is not my native language but the word *may* surely cannot be misunderstood? Ok, I'll make it simple:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/09/2013 08:31, pk wrote: > On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some >> random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to >> work out fine that is broken. >> >> It just happened to work OK for years

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread pk
On 2013-09-30 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's the general idea that you can leave /usr unmounted until some > random arb time later in the startup sequence and just expect things to > work out fine that is broken. > > It just happened to work OK for years because nothing happened to use > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 18:41, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): > El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: >> Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: >>> On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/09/2013 23:41, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual madness. But they are > not to blame for seperate /usr and the breakage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: >>> that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. And their dependency on systemd is just the usual madness. But they are not to blame for seperate /usr and the breakage it causes. >> If not, then what was it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: >> that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. >> > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual madness. But they are >> > not to blame for seperate /usr and the breakage it causes. > If not, then what was it? You seem to know what

[gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-29 11:12 AM, Greg Woodbury wrote: It is truly layable at the feet of the GNOME folks, the breakage of the root and usr filesystem separability is all derived from the GNOME camp. Thanks for the excellent summary... and this explains a lot... It also doesn't surpise me, given my ext

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: > Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: >> On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd, it is not >>> the root cause of the problem. >>> >>> The problems were caused

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: >> On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd, it is not >>> the root cause of the problem. >>> >>> The problems were caused by people saying that

[gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: > On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd, it is not >> the root cause of the problem. >> >> The problems were caused by people saying that seperate /usr was a good >> idea, so