-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 02:53 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev >> <tetrom...@gentoo.org> >>> The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to >>> decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the >>> user had finished installing the operating system, it's too >>> late to inform him about the advantages of a separate >>> /usr/portage. > >> Yes and no (if you have free space, you could easily move >> /usr/portage - some other changes are harder). ... >> However, I tend to agree that the handbook should be a >> nearly-foolproof no-frills Gentoo installation. > > > > You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in Section > 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in > it (take a bit of space away from /home, or something) > > It doesn't recommend/require anything, but when users see it > they'll think about it.
That isn't the way users read it, though. They read it and assume that is precisely how they *need* to configure their disk layout. - - Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk9yD0kACgkQVxOqA9G7/aAdKQD/WnFh36QVL1tV/kfHdPcUyebQ W0nvjhngMEU09fW8bWwA/A+A6wnhbm3DUA0Pl2dTmOY20rW9ceLE7qM3PSqM5tw1 =coW5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
