From: "Aleksandar L. Dimitrov" <aleks_d@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 04:16:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178763405.5080.15.camel@brmbr.moo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 01:01 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote:
> > I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough
> > to make remounting it daily rather annoying.
>
> Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage
> is stupid. The logical location for the tree would be on /var ... :)
>
I think the original reason for this is that FreeBSD ports is also
in /usr/ports. FS-optimization freaks (like myself) can always generate
a sparse file and/or mount /usr/portage somewhere else. A script that
does the update after this (w/ remounting and the like) is no big
magic.
Regards, Aleks
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 23:56 [gentoo-user] Clock is way off Grant
2007-05-09 5:28 ` AJ Spagnoletti
2007-05-09 6:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Anno v. Heimburg
2007-05-09 14:27 ` Grant
2007-05-09 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 15:45 ` Grant
2007-05-09 16:12 ` Redouane Boumghar
2007-05-09 17:05 ` Dale
2007-05-09 17:17 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-05-09 17:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 17:53 ` [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-09 18:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 18:29 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-09 18:34 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-09 18:54 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 20:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 21:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 6:56 ` Naga
2007-05-10 8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:22 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-09 21:52 ` Mick
2007-05-09 21:49 ` darren kirby
2007-05-09 23:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-09 23:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [this message]
2007-05-10 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-09 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 0:31 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:01 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 7:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-10 8:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 8:41 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr Alexander Skwar
2007-05-10 9:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 10:11 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-10 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:36 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-11 5:51 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-09 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off Dale
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