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On 20-04-2008 23:17:48 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> I've got a Macbook Pro running Leopard and am installing Gentoo Prefix |
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> on it. When i read the doc about a case-sensitive file system is |
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> assumed, I checked and found that my file system is case-insensitive. |
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> I googled and found it is time-consume to convert the file system |
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> (backup the whole system, reformat, reinstall os and restore the |
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> backup). So here I have two questions: |
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> 1. If I don't convert, how many/what packages would break? If they |
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> are not essential and I don't need them, I would rather live with the |
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> current file system. |
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I'm running on case-insensitive filesystem too, and the problems |
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currently are very very very limited. So just go for it and forget |
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about it, until you start to hit weird errors ;) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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