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From: Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] remote /usr
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:05:36
Message-Id: 20061207220021.GD17171@home.power
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] [friendly reminder] sys-libs/timezone-data and MySQL by Christian Bricart
1 Hi!
2
3 On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote:
4 > Drawbacks:
5 > according to FHS /usr may be a remote filesystem, but /etc/localtime has
6 > to exist during boot.
7
8 Can anybody in _this_ maillist confirm importance of "remote /usr" support?
9
10 In my experience remote /usr is very rare case nowadays and supporting it
11 "by default" result in few very uncomfortable things - in addition to
12 /etc/localtime example I can add grep ebuild which compile grep without
13 perl regexp support (only because libperl is in /usr while grep is in /).
14
15 --
16 WBR, Alex.
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18 gentoo-server@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr Ronan Mullally <ronan@×××.ie>
Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr Christian Bricart <christian@×××××××.de>