From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hlvim-0000nB-Oz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 23:37:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49Na7PN011390; Wed, 9 May 2007 23:36:07 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49NVh8e006661 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 23:31:43 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC3112AB57 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 00:31:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:31:37 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Message-ID: <20070510003137.58e3b389@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <200705091549.45764.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2cvs2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_T=THJJR=o9540jPUGqJTm_5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 13feb02b-62bd-447c-bab1-6ee4e5105ed2 X-Archives-Hash: f9efe8a75c247efeb6df1bc22887d899 --Sig_T=THJJR=o9540jPUGqJTm_5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 10 May 2007 01:01:32 +0200, Bo =D8rsted 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. =20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 26: Software documentation --Sig_T=THJJR=o9540jPUGqJTm_5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQlncum4al0N1GQMRAo7mAJ9L7LShEQYTJ6hJ2ZlfW2ovVqsNPgCgt2t/ qvCBlV7ag++VMUhIJ14cWuM= =G9oh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_T=THJJR=o9540jPUGqJTm_5-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list