Hello, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2012-11-14 01:31, Linda Walsh wrote:
I have no initrd -- and I never saw this solution proposed on this (as someone else calls it, "development discussion" list -- and they thought this wasn't a development issue?).
I did.
You need initrd- If you do not want to use it, then you will need to hack your own solution.
WHY? Using initrds for binaries and libs residing in /usr/ just for the heck of it, each binary and lib duplicated in each initrd is IMO just useless. Put those binaries and libs in /bin, /sbin and /lib and *whoa* you can get rid of the initrd! Or most of it anyway. In my case, each initrd (compressed!) 4.5M big (i.e. ~11M uncompressed). And I don't even actually need the initrd. The only kernel-modules in there are cpufreq/fan/thermal stuff that could well be loaded later. BTW: that move cluttering up /usr/ is IMO just bad. I thought it was bad when KDE/Gnome/X still lived in /opt/kde, /opt/gnome and /usr/X11, but now? $ ls /usr/bin | wc -l 5150 $ ls /usr/lib64/ | wc -l 3833 This is better exactly why, again? Oh, and if you insist on the move to /usr/, why isn't /etc moved to /usr/etc and /root to /home/root? Eh??? /dev/ and /proc/ and /sys/ and /mnt and /srv/ and ... also moved to /usr? Until we get to a / where there's only a '/usr/' in /? And what then? The FS-layout with /bin, /lib[64], /sbin, /root etc. + /usr, /opt and /home has come to be there for good reasons! I'm guessing this whole thing got started by /-tools using libs that resided in /usr and not linking /bin and /sbin stuff statically anymore, the first was glib IIRC. So, glib moved to /lib. More libs were used. So some of them were moved too, some not. WHY? I don't know and Who's on first. Tell me. Anyway: I think the whole move and reasoning is, ahm, bul^Wnot quite thought through. -dnh -- We're standing there pounding a dead parrot on the counter, and the management response is to frantically swap in new counters to see if that fixes the problem. -- Peter Gutmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org