Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

[Sven Vermeulen]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then,
> maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining
> the cons of having portage tree on a standard partition and, then, put a
> link to a wiki page (for example) where all this alternatives are
> explained.
>
> What do you think about this approach?

I don't like the "cons" approach, as it gives the impression that users are
pushed into a negative solution, whereas the current situation works just
fine for almost all users. The approach for a different partition is for
performance reasons (which most users don't have any negative feelings
about) and as such might be read as a "ricer" approach.

But perhaps it would be more "lean" to just start with a wiki page (or
document) for alternative / better partitioning layouts, and when that has
stabilized then we can talk about Handbook integration, not?

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen