Well.. Lennart points this out, then walks right past it. The problem isn't the init, or the boot process, or any of that. The problem is the reliance on

Well.. Lennart points this out, then walks right past it. The problem isn't the init, or the boot process, or any of that. The problem is the reliance on 'fstab'. This is where Lennart/Freedesktop kill me; rather than notice that the underlying mechanism should be replaced, they figure they should just build a better mousetrap on top of it. If you want to make linux more "desktopy" without screwing around too much with stupid initd decisions, then fix some of these broken underlying mechanisms. Unless he's really suggesting that my big problem is that my /usr partition might be on a removable device.