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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:54:13
Message-Id: 4F65B03A.8020406@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! by pk
1 pk wrote:
2 > On 2012-03-17 21:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >
4 >> seriously, you have seemed to miss some news. There is a move by redhat&co to
5 >> move almost everything from / to /usr. With nothing left than some mountpoints
6 >> - why put / on its own partition? There is nothing to contain apart from /etc.
7 >
8 > Nope, haven't missed a thing; I'm on the other side of the fence (of
9 > course the _right_ side :-) ), where we can keep all our /bin /sbin /usr
10 > directories separate and live happily everafter... ;-)
11 >
12 >> Your sarcasm fails because you think that there is an intrinsic reason to keep
13 >> / seperate. Well, with / filled with usefull binaries to bring a hosed system
14 >> back from the garbage pile that was true for some peole. But with the current
15 >> movement there isn't anything there at all.
16 >
17 > You're correct in a sense; if I choose to accept the New World Order
18 > (NWO) and put everything into /usr then you would be correct. As it
19 > stands now, I'm going in the other direction (putting /, /usr, /var,
20 > /home on separate harddrives)... :-D
21 >
22 > But I guess Gentoo itself will adapt to the NWO eventually, unless (by
23 > some miracle) some sanity is restored, so I'll have to find a new OS to
24 > use (probably FreeBSD)...
25 >
26 > Best regards
27 >
28 > Peter K
29 >
30 >
31
32
33 I been thinking about that *BSD stuff lately. Hmmmmm, maybe I need to
34 do some research on this and give it a try.
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)
39
40 --
41 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
42 how you interpreted my words!
43
44 Miss the compile output? Hint:
45 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>