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 1SCuxQ-0006Nb-CW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:38:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23B67E0E11; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6978FE0E05 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so1188534bkw.40 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:37:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+WBwA4pWkbaPCj912hxh1zU1fQiHK3fEZ81CZ4IH9Tc=; b=d/50mzGRT7CdIt+6WXpKbDOYrLjbukhbQqy7DpB9Kaa0uM3cMTAHnx9sHimgU+vopU IK6cHF+eqcud7w3rARDXq5Pu/ar8FDj8ActfoNSPvCHF4T2bGyEIz2SrDxrb2Ujp7RZc LCRvx1espGurItRNcKvj4wzYQNnud+gx8mCzyB4DQpLj21iTpWT5t1ddvJ5ew/XFZmyt eN8KRI+irg3V4HS/sa6MjUmkk4WuhStMHoWALl9dFdXWFBtslEQplZnMZE+/PNno5TXZ FxiOSOTvpZJxJfbYaXuD2iTpn5AQisRxF0OaYQ8Fl6R5vk++SVkjKn63/sf8u2nmfUCo sGYw== 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 10.204.155.83 with SMTP id r19mr12327551bkw.123.1332949045469; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.65.206 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:37:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F732755.8040703@cs.stonybrook.edu> References: <20337.28987.736877.961717@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120327154239.GA17394@gentoo.org> <1332870540.18466.9.camel@belkin4> <20120327191645.7b13a417@googlemail.com> <1332918970.29064.144.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <4F732755.8040703@cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:37:25 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: JHqNt1D1dEIYjcJQWAF3FBVJJhU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Brian Dolbec Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8dba0917-4a00-4a27-bb4e-4b37a29c38e9 X-Archives-Hash: 33eac113da715fdd20dd33ded727333a On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao wrot= e: > On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possi= ble >>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, >>> since everyone has an SSD now. >> >> Yeah, right. =A0Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet >> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one? > > In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would > like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware > people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions. Nobody doesn't like what Brian had to say. Most everybody around here including Ciaran likely agrees with him. The issue is that Ciaran said the complete opposite of what he was trying to communicate (sarcasm), and that likely due to language/culture/etc that might not have been clear to somebody who isn't a native English speaker in a western culture. The allusion was clearly to the larger udev/systemd/usr issues and the point he was making is that many of these boil down to disagreements about what use cases you consider important. So, just take everything Ciaran said in that particular post, assume he meant the exact opposite, and now you'll see where he is coming from. Yes, I do agree that sarcasm tends to cause problems on international email lists, but his post did at least make me smile. :) Rich