From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:31:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510003137.58e3b389@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 01:01:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen 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 ... :)
Except that running emerge --sync without following it with emerge
--update is rather pointless, and that would require /usr to be mounted
rw wherever $PORTDIR was.
I do agree that /var is a far more logical location.
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 26: Software documentation
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 23:37 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2007-05-10 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
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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