Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:20:37
Message-Id: 1687057.4tTYKEJzqn@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet? by Kevin Chadwick
1 Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick:
2 > On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800
3 >
4 > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you
6 > > have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives
7 > > a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and
8 > > /usr/src to other places. My /usr never has all that much in it beyond
9 > > those two directories, along with maybe /usr/share. Would it not be
10 > > easier for you in the long run to move /usr back to / and not have to
11 > > deal with this question at all?
12 >
13 > It should be moving in the other direction for stability reasons and
14 > busybox is no full answer.
15 >
16 > On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All the
17 > critical single user binaries are in root and built statically as much
18 > as possible, maximising system reliability no matter the custom
19 > requirements or packages.
20
21 until a flaw is found in one of the libs used and all those statically linked
22 binaries are in danger. Well done!
23
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet? Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>