Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:32:12
Message-Id: 20110801182716.2ebaee92@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by Francesco Riosa
1 On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:22:15 +0200
2 Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I
4 > would like to see an addition of one root directory "gentoo" where
5 > ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff.
6
7 Doesn't really fit in nicely with the build directory being arbitrarily
8 removable, caches like distdir being removable if you need space, repos
9 like gentoo-x86 being not really removable and repos like vdb being
10 totally not removable at all.
11
12 There's a reason Unix has /usr, /var etc, not /Applications/Blah/ .
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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