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 1S9CoW-000513-3u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:54:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6540FE0B60; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F848E0A0B for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz13 with SMTP id z13so6140295ghb.40 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:52:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DkUYl2jZdnqCQpIw47ndQrB0rJvIeCBv3c6pgt4l5VA=; b=TDfkbCcleChgNkMzAXda7VWe2C2KH7fD4dAczmP7Vc0YZc6PQQZeQiSRfI7QBNMxL2 7MIVENscmY5FQjRLixhkDzDXQdr2uc/nybeSPm9b4ZqknC2Bfgs4DjtjnRdPoamy0lGD Ru4vyf/YHV5i32k30dnPvyu9A1LVXxC2UhWngoO1c+6SSwhpxkLfn0xd7PTx5CA8BeB9 n3BYRNs+E8iPPUGuz674K+q1VjAoI7ZL/t+zojW+ptPV+AS+ee9LPlS7Ti6T7SDZ0RtB Spp1mreMOn9P7oJ97mRAIQXCsgQjC/JxAF1aKG+WFgRlpt/Gyc7382yNorndhkYhQuXZ KrxA== Received: by 10.236.173.202 with SMTP id v50mr8667176yhl.102.1332064320882; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p18sm12839349ano.20.2012.03.18.02.51.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F65B03A.8020406@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:51:54 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120318 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <1799394.mohVsQjc44@localhost> <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> <4189454.mV9j5rxc4s@localhost> <4F64F402.5020307@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: <4F64F402.5020307@coolmail.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6437aebd-3780-4cbf-975b-33e7dcf2ebda X-Archives-Hash: 2e154751140f905ad5396e83f48be204 pk wrote: > On 2012-03-17 21:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> seriously, you have seemed to miss some news. There is a move by redhat&co to >> move almost everything from / to /usr. With nothing left than some mountpoints >> - why put / on its own partition? There is nothing to contain apart from /etc. > > Nope, haven't missed a thing; I'm on the other side of the fence (of > course the _right_ side :-) ), where we can keep all our /bin /sbin /usr > directories separate and live happily everafter... ;-) > >> Your sarcasm fails because you think that there is an intrinsic reason to keep >> / seperate. Well, with / filled with usefull binaries to bring a hosed system >> back from the garbage pile that was true for some peole. But with the current >> movement there isn't anything there at all. > > You're correct in a sense; if I choose to accept the New World Order > (NWO) and put everything into /usr then you would be correct. As it > stands now, I'm going in the other direction (putting /, /usr, /var, > /home on separate harddrives)... :-D > > But I guess Gentoo itself will adapt to the NWO eventually, unless (by > some miracle) some sanity is restored, so I'll have to find a new OS to > use (probably FreeBSD)... > > Best regards > > Peter K > > I been thinking about that *BSD stuff lately. Hmmmmm, maybe I need to do some research on this and give it a try. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"