From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Wednesday 06 February 2013 23:47, Bit Twister conveyed the following   
   to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:59:04 +0000, Grimble wrote:   
   >   
   >> Unfortunately I have to move /usr to a new partition (I started to do   
   >> something with GNU Radio, and urpmi has been very busy!)   
   >   
   > If I am not mistaken, Mageia is merging /usr into / do to the   
   > latest/greatest systemd requirement. No idea when Mandriva will follow   
   > suit. Hope this move is not a long term desire.   
      
   They're not actually merging /usr with the root filesystem - this was   
   apparently the case for an earlier iteration of the unholy udev/systemd   
   combination - but what they are going to do is merge the contents of   
   /bin, /lib{64} and /sbin with /usr/bin, /usr/lib{64} and /usr/sbin, so   
   that /bin, /lib and /sbin will be symlinks to their equivalents under   
   /usr.   
      
   I don't know when Mandriva is going to follow suit, but it's definitely   
   on the way over, possibly by the next release.  However, the latest   
   versions of dracut /should/ be able to generate an initramfs which   
   mounts /usr in early userspace, as udev and systemd will themselves then   
   also be residing in /usr.   
      
   The "/usr move", as it is called, is a concoction of RedHat and is   
   retroactively justified so as to cover for the breakage introduced by   
   Kay Sievers (in udev) and Lennart Poettering (in systemd), who felt that   
   everyone and their dog should bear the consequences of a fix for a   
   corner case scenario - i.e. people with BlueTooth keyboards - which was   
   broken in the original configuration.   
      
   Sievers has managed to righteously anger Linus a few times already as   
   well, which has resulted in the kernel developers creating a kernel-   
   level firmware and module loader (kmod), because Sievers had broken the   
   firmware and module loading in udev and wasn't too motivated to fix it.   
      
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