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On 03/27/2012 02:53 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev |
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>> <tetromino@g.o> |
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>>> The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to |
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>>> decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the |
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>>> user had finished installing the operating system, it's too |
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>>> late to inform him about the advantages of a separate |
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>>> /usr/portage. |
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>> Yes and no (if you have free space, you could easily move |
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>> /usr/portage - some other changes are harder). |
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>> However, I tend to agree that the handbook should be a |
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>> nearly-foolproof no-frills Gentoo installation. |
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> You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in Section |
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> 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in |
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> it (take a bit of space away from /home, or something) |
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> It doesn't recommend/require anything, but when users see it |
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> they'll think about it. |
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That isn't the way users read it, though. They read it and assume that |
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is precisely how they *need* to configure their disk layout. |
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- - Aaron |
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