pk wrote: > On 2012-03-17 21:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> seriously, you have seemed to miss some news. There is a move by redhat&co >> to >> move almost everything from / to /usr. With nothing left than some >> mountpoints >> - why put / on its own partition? There is nothing to contain apart from >> /etc. > > Nope, haven't missed a thing; I'm on the other side of the fence (of > course the _right_ side :-) ), where we can keep all our /bin /sbin /usr > directories separate and live happily everafter... ;-) > >> Your sarcasm fails because you think that there is an intrinsic reason to >> keep >> / seperate. Well, with / filled with usefull binaries to bring a hosed >> system >> back from the garbage pile that was true for some peole. But with the >> current >> movement there isn't anything there at all. > > You're correct in a sense; if I choose to accept the New World Order > (NWO) and put everything into /usr then you would be correct. As it > stands now, I'm going in the other direction (putting /, /usr, /var, > /home on separate harddrives)... :-D > > But I guess Gentoo itself will adapt to the NWO eventually, unless (by > some miracle) some sanity is restored, so I'll have to find a new OS to > use (probably FreeBSD)... > > Best regards > > Peter K > >
I been thinking about that *BSD stuff lately. Hmmmmm, maybe I need to do some research on this and give it a try. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"