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From: Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:12:51
Message-Id: 1356106321.4128.5.camel@cathai.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 12:48 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:42:23 PM Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:31:28 +0100
4 > >
5 > > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
6 > > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:02:34 PM Michał Górny wrote:
7 > > > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:24:45 +0100
8 > > > >
9 > > > > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
10 > > > > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 09:57:25 AM Michał Górny wrote:
11 > > > > > > Just let me know when you have to maintain a lot of such systemd
12 > > > > > > and upgrade, say, glibc. Then maybe you'll understand.
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > A shared /usr means I need to update ALL the systems at once.
15 > > > > > When /usr is not shared, I can update groups at a time.
16 > > > >
17 > > > > Yes, and this is what disqualifies it for the general case. If you
18 > > > > can't update one at some point, you can't update the others or it is
19 > > > > going to likely get broken in a random manner.
20 > > >
21 > > > Yes, but do you want to find out when the entire production environment is
22 > > > down? Or would you rather do the upgrades in steps and only risk having to
23 > > > rebuild a few nodes and have a lower performance during that time?
24 > > > There is a big difference between 50% performance and 0%.
25 > >
26 > > Didn't you just state that you *have* to update all at the same time?
27 >
28 > Please re-read what I wrote.
29 > I said, with a *shared* /usr, then yes, I do need to update the entire
30 > environment at the same time.
31
32 That's not true.
33
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35 Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
36 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
37 http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib

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