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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible |
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>>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, |
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>>> since everyone has an SSD now. |
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>> Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet |
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>> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one? |
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> In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would |
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> like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware |
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> people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions. |
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> I support Brian on this. If you guys want to have documentation on more |
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> advanced disk tricks, make a separate handbook that specializes in |
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> partitioning and filesystems. The main handbook can include a reference |
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> to it for advanced users. |
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You seem to have missed it too, so let's someone just spell it out |
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before this goes farther. |
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Ciaran was mocking the argument that's given by proponents of merging |
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/ into /usr. He *doesn't* actually feel like that. |
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So let's stop this. |
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