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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:51:26PM -0500, Olivier Cr?te wrote |
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> No no no, the idea is that once all binaries are in /usr, you can easily |
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> share /usr between different systems and do updates in a sane way.. You |
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> can also mount /usr read-only, but still have / be read-write. |
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One size does not fit all. It breaks Gentoo horribly. Here's my setup |
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waltdnes@d530 / $ du -s /usr |
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3057917 usr |
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waltdnes@d530 /usr $ du -s /usr/portage |
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1394646 /usr/portage |
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waltdnes@d530 /usr $ du -s /usr/src |
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665069 /usr/src |
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In my 3 gig /usr directory, over 2 gigs are devoted to Gentoo-specific |
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stuff that a binary distro like Redhat does not require. What do we do |
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if /usr is read-only? Symlink or bindmount onto it? |
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And sharing binaries does *NOT* work in Gentoo, unless *EVERYBODY* has |
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*IDENTICAL* machines, or else you drop down to the lowest common |
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denominator. That's one of the main points about Gentoo. We don't use |
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generic i686 code, we use code optimised for our machines. I'm not a |
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"Gentoo ricer", but here's a prime example... a 3 and 1/2 year old Dell |
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Dimension 530 with an onboard Intel graphics chip. Right after the |
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initial install (i686 code from the install CD), the onboard graphics |
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could not handle NHL Gamecentre Live fullscreen (1920x1080). There |
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would be constant stuttering. After I emerged system and world with |
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"-march=native -O2 -mfpmath=sse", it handles NHL Gamecentre Live |
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fullscreen, and even a 1080p movie clip downloaded from Youtube. Fedora |
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with generic i686 code would not work for me. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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