On Tue, 19.10.10 16:51, Stanislav Ochotnicky (sochotnicky(a)redhat.com) wrote:
On 10/19/2010 04:37 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Note that many other distributions gave up on seperate /usr already (for
> example, Gentoo do this, and even refers to Fedora that it wasn't
> supported here, which is technically true, but so far not officially).
Where did you get that idea? From Gentoo installation handbook:
Well, some Gentoo devs involved with integrating systemd on gentoo
pointed this out to me. The context was that the systemd tool to
initialize the console expects "loadkeys" to be in /bin, while on Gentoo
it is in /usr/bin. And I asked them to unify the location to /bin so
that we have less ugly glue code in the systemd build system, and the
gentoo folks ultimately refused, saying that seperate /usr wasn't
supported anyway.
Basically, on gentoo you don't get a correct keymapping before /usr is
around, which means you cannot even type your hdd password in properly
unless you are a lucky american.
There's even a Gentoo bug about this somewhere.
Lennart
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