Re: Re: eudev project announcement

On 12/18/2012 01:45 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:50:51AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, William Hubbs wrote:
>>
>>> This all started with the April 2012 council meeting when it was
>>> pushed through that separate /usr without an initramfs is a
>>> supported configuration, so yes, the previous council started this
>>> issue.
>>
>> Sorry, but that's not an accurate account of what the council has
>> decided on. What we voted on in the April 2012 meeting was this:
>>
>>    <ulm> The question is: "Decide on whether a separate /usr is still
>>          a supported configuration."
>  
> Ulrich,
> 
>  I have read the log, and that is where the confusion is.
> 
>  If that is true, and I think folks would beg to differ, we can say that
>  the way separate /usr is supported is via requiring an initramfs and
>  move forward from there because that would still be within the
>  council's requirement since there is now documentation on how to build
>  an initramfs.
> 
> I know at least one council member who was at that meeting who would
> strongly disagree and say that what you voted for was that separate
> /usr, without an initramfs, is a supported configuration.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> William
> 

Our official documentation for LVM2 explicitly advised users to use such
configurations. Dropping support now will break existing systems
unnecessarily.

Before anyone says to use a news item, let me say that publishing a news
item to inform users that we decided to break their systems will not
make it better.