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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 04:10:28
Message-Id: 570880A8.8030206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge by Damien Levac
1 On 4/8/16 11:54 PM, Damien Levac wrote:
2 >> I personally think sharing /usr over a network and deploying it to
3 >> multiple machines could be a recipe for disaster.
4 >
5 > Uh... it is a nice opinion, but when you are managing 1000+ machines,
6 > scripting is not cutting it anymore. Obviously we are network
7 > distributing it. Not that we aren't already successful with it without
8 > the merge though.
9 >
10
11 it can also be a recipe for success if you do it right. i did it for
12 years on a 20 machine classroom where i didn't feel like installing the
13 same thing 20 times.
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16 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
17 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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