[systemd-devel] CoreOS Goal Question: Should we be aiming to be able to boot with an empty /etc?

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 11:48 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> H
> I was thinking, is it a general stated aim that we should be able to
> boot with an empty /etc? 

Definitely quite useful for my plan:

https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/MultipleRoots

> I guess the same should be true of /var too probably (i.e. packages
> should be able to cope with initing themselves on first use and not rely
> on doing it at package install).

Yes:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e7add58aad1bb5eca28360c9c7a1a3956261c7df
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=b18a7464095fa724b8160ebe2388f925558be5da
...and others.