Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

Il 27/03/2012 20:53, Ian Stakenvicius ha scritto:
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> On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
>> <tetromino@g.o>
>>> The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to
>>> decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the user
>>> had finished installing the operating system, it's too late to
>>> inform him about the advantages of a separate /usr/portage.
>> Yes and no (if you have free space, you could easily move
>> /usr/portage - some other changes are harder).
>>
>> However, you could extend this line of argument to raid, lvm, and
>> even stuff like the use of systemd or an alternative package
>> manager.  All of those things are much easier to implement if you
>> just start out with them.
>>
>> I'm all for creating a wiki to talk about some alternative
>> options. Perhaps even link to it at the start of the handbook in
>> the intro (if you're not in a rush and want to read about more
>> advanced configurations, check out ...).
>>
>> However, I tend to agree that the handbook should be a
>> nearly-foolproof no-frills Gentoo installation.
>>
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> You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in Section 4,
> we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in 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 they'll
> think about it.

Boh ... IMHO /usr/portage should be a squashfs filesystem, rsynced from 
some kind server out there, auto(un)mounted, so it releases resources 
after use.
No needs for any additional partition (which sound kinda lame for a 
package manager)

However the devs are right here, handbook should be stripped down, not 
bloated with details that could be fulfilled later

Rgds,
Francesco