On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Yes, if you build your own kernels, and don't put /usr/ on a different partition, you can get away without a initrd, I do it all the time.
--- Before 12.2, it was ONLY a requirement to build your own kernel. Now, you have to move /usr... AND your /usr/Share partition -- that was meant to be architecture independent, shareable data, vs. /usr that was designed for usr level application, vs. /bin+sbin that contained a smaller number of programs that were considered your trusted computing base -- making a trusted system easier to verify. Adding /usr and /usr/share -- you can through those ideas out the window.
I'm no expert on LSB, but I think you got that wrong. usr stands for Unix System Resources (not user as many assume, including myself a while back). What you're mentioning goes in /usr/local -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org