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From: "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:34:33
Message-Id: 4F72159B.3070406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook by Ian Stakenvicius
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4 On 03/27/2012 03:13 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
5 > On 27/03/12 03:04 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
6 >
7 >>> You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in
8 >>> Section 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage
9 >>> partition in it (take a bit of space away from /home, or
10 >>> something)
11 >
12 >>> It doesn't recommend/require anything, but when users see it
13 >>> they'll think about it.
14 >
15 >> That isn't the way users read it, though. They read it and
16 >> assume that is precisely how they *need* to configure their disk
17 >> layout.
18 >
19 >> - Aaron
20 >
21 >
22 > Really? It's been a while since i hung out in #gentoo, but i was
23 > there pretty solidly for a couple of years and i don't recall any
24 > new user (to gentoo or linux) reporting in, saying they set up
25 > their disk(s) with all of those partitions. They pretty well
26 > always followed the "default partitioning scheme" listed in the
27 > table in 4.b (which is used for every other example on that
28 > chapter).
29
30 Yes, really.
31
32 I've seen it often in #gentoo where a new user said that they did it
33 just like the example told them to, despite it being marked 'Optional'
34 they still thought it was required. It would take several of the
35 experienced users to say 'skip it' in four-part harmony to convince
36 the novice to move on.
37
38 The less we show regarding advanced setups, the less likely we'll have
39 support a new installation. We can hint at them somewhere in the
40 paragraphs, but we should avoid them in the code samples because
41 people don't read. They skim.
42
43 - - Aaron
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