Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> >     Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >         I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also
> had to
> >         fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason,
> wound up
> >         having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.)
> > 
> > 
> >     Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. They
> have
> >     the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I must
> replace 
> >     a disk. 
> > 
> >     --
> >     Regards
> >     wabe
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > they are human-readable.
> 
> Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable.
> 
> Labels are human *understandable*
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters even if you know nothing of the language :P
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