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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote: |
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> > Drawbacks: |
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> > according to FHS /usr may be a remote filesystem, but /etc/localtime has |
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> > to exist during boot. |
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> Can anybody in _this_ maillist confirm importance of "remote /usr" support? |
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> In my experience remote /usr is very rare case nowadays and supporting it |
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> "by default" result in few very uncomfortable things - in addition to |
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> /etc/localtime example I can add grep ebuild which compile grep without |
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> perl regexp support (only because libperl is in /usr while grep is in /). |
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I use an NFS mounted /usr file system extensively, although not on gentoo |
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systems - I've not got any deployments running gentoo that are large |
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enough to make it worth the effort. |
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-Ronan |
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