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 1SCbu3-00061x-Vb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:18:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC3EDE059C; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD987E0741 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaoo28 with SMTP id o28so320230iao.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:16:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LczE4+XIUA2GZcFt7U6q/FnVo8XHefk0qU5WkNMuMP8=; b=Twedh5qjFPm0YVPKgOGOJ7DrgPeldhfMhmj2AHoebmx3hNO8vbhRbmkdeBaTrAeeoJ Mkh44p1iV9PBMv9M82iBNwAWyGX78ehR4Xowbi4Crw7d1g9n5glGnpQt2fYQN2oo5LZj LgII48k/CUR4Vzd/gvbGzYzH1ueYdROPi9j6sFvOZuTfiZUWNrGUYKPQKnriTGXK8mkq iBBVW8pGQqYdFFvjxeV8djFATgsABi9ISV/se6zdyHjUHcR3BAZBFAG61Ijjyjab1ODZ 6sI9+em8ofhkqgtx26JNodbmEJ4641+4zbt9FZuo/WbBhVDXo9yrxmA7YZHDTBKrTtPd A0UQ== 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 Received: by 10.42.107.9 with SMTP id b9mr15921873icp.18.1332875781498; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.138.74 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:16:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F720CAE.7070306@gentoo.org> References: <20337.28987.736877.961717@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120327154239.GA17394@gentoo.org> <1332870540.18466.9.camel@belkin4> <20120327180158.GA1468@siphos.be> <1332873243.11827.15.camel@rook> <4F720CAE.7070306@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:16:21 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0dc32d3a-cf75-4a51-9810-a98eb5e7f027 X-Archives-Hash: d4175342c0101517479b962128c57d5b On 28 March 2012 07:53, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in Section 4, > we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in it > (take a bit of space away from /home, or something) > > It doesn't recommend/require anything, but when users see it they'll > think about it. I'd be careful with that logic, users may just copy it without thinking and then wonder why it doesn't work ( because they didn't do all the other steps required to make it work such as making sure you don't run out of space, set DIST_DIR etc etc ) --=20 Kent perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2=A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_= * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"