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From: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:03:09
Message-Id: 4F732755.8040703@cs.stonybrook.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook by Brian Dolbec
1 On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible
4 >> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical,
5 >> since everyone has an SSD now.
6 >>
7 >
8 > Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet
9 > have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one?
10
11 In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would
12 like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware
13 people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions.
14
15 I support Brian on this. If you guys want to have documentation on more
16 advanced disk tricks, make a separate handbook that specializes in
17 partitioning and filesystems. The main handbook can include a reference
18 to it for advanced users.

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