On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM, clemens fischer <ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> No. Even if things fail entirely, we will provide a hook for >> mkinitcpio that mounts /usr before switching to the real root >> filesystem. This will eliminate all your potential bugs. However >> - this hook hasn't been written yet. > > Imagine somebody with a desktop arch-linux. For some reason his system > "fails entirely". Should he or she now mess with a live-CD to backport > the yet unwritten hook once it is finished and doodle on his thumbs > waiting for it? Reinstall everything? Clarifying again: nothing is more broken now than it used to be, and no one are forced to do anything. We are just now pointing out that things _are_ broken, so people should beware. -t
