From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SAun5-0008S5-5I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:03:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0896E0B4B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E69C4E0B4D for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27724 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2012 01:56:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box443.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.243) by oproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2012 01:56:51 -0000 Received: from c-66-41-30-59.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([66.41.30.59] helo=crud.chemoelectric.org) by box443.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SAtkI-0003km-QT for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:56:51 -0600 Received: by crud.chemoelectric.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 6346C2009A37B; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:56:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:56:49 -0500 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) Message-ID: <20120323015649.GA5034@crud> References: <20120319121229.0a9ecd3b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Identified-User: {1474:box443.bluehost.com:crudfact:crudfactory.com} {sentby:smtp auth 66.41.30.59 authed with crudfactory@crudfactory.com} X-Archives-Salt: 70657b09-81bc-4a64-aa06-830f80560dda X-Archives-Hash: 5d895c6e0795f362205a1bdba55875db Mark Knecht skribis: > I do use package.mask when I want or need to delay something getting > onto one of my machines that I just don't want to deal with until > others have proved it works. (Think about the new udev coming out...) I moved most my system other than /home out of LVM and into one big partition in anticipation of that. No way do I want to use initramfs. That=E2=80=99s a very good udev to think about before unmasking. (I=E2=80=99ve had to use rescue CDs due to udev upgrades.) Linux seems to be heading towards a SunOS-like situation where the distinction between / and /usr is weak. It=E2=80=99s probably way too lat= e to go back to having /usr as what we now call /home :)