From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CBF59CAF for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 04:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1850B21C0DD; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 04:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C7C821C0D6 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 04:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from greysprite.dite (cpe-74-77-145-97.buffalo.res.rr.com [74.77.145.97]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B277E340BE8 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 04:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <57087D0F.9040907@gmail.com> From: "Anthony G. Basile" Message-ID: <570880A8.8030206@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 00:10:16 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57087D0F.9040907@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d203b292-c91d-4b60-b3c6-b0d33d6b9ad0 X-Archives-Hash: f0a45fb4f0f72ce6f3893900079271b6 On 4/8/16 11:54 PM, Damien Levac wrote: >> I personally think sharing /usr over a network and deploying it to >> multiple machines could be a recipe for disaster. > > Uh... it is a nice opinion, but when you are managing 1000+ machines, > scripting is not cutting it anymore. Obviously we are network > distributing it. Not that we aren't already successful with it without > the merge though. > it can also be a recipe for success if you do it right. i did it for years on a 20 machine classroom where i didn't feel like installing the same thing 20 times. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA