On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:29:30 +0100 (CET)
karl@??? wrote:

> Katola2:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 07:20:34AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > > Am So den 27. Nov 2016 um 23:47 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> > > > I still don't understand why you cannot mount /usr, just what
> > > > do you gain by doing it the systemd way ??
> > >
> > > Well, To mount /usr, udev has to make it available first (via
> > > mddevice and lvm). But udev uses ps internal and ps is, in new
> > > debians, linked against libsystemd and libsystemd depends on
> > > libraries in /usr.
> > >
> > > And Biebl in his divine wisdom just closed the bug report as
> > > wontfix.
> > >
> >
> > But we all agree that this is just an enormous bunch of unnecessary
> > nonsense, right?
>
> Ack, I don't even need udev to mount /usr.
>

So, as I thought, you gain nothing doing it the systemd way, except a
load of unnecessary complication.

Rowland