On 2013-09-29 11:24 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Tanstaafl wrote:
Dale - I'm honestly curious, what is your reason, philisophical or
technical, for wanting a separate /usr?

Everything I've read says there is no good reason for it today.
Separate /home, /tmp, /var, yes, good reasons for t hose... but not
/usr...

So, again - why would you prefer switching distro's over merging /usr
back into / and be done with it?

The reason is the same I have posted before.  I have / and /boot on
regular partitions.  Everything else is on LVM.  I don't have / on LVM
because it would require a init thingy.  I don't have /boot on LVM
because grub doesn't or didn't support it.  I have since switched to
grub2 so it may but still have the issue with / so no need redoing
everything for that.

Well, I don't see a *reason* to WANT to have /usr on a separate partition. I see only THE reason that you have it there NOW.

Also, logically speaking, if the stated reason for not having / (or /boot) on separate LVM partitions is because it would require an init thingy, then why can't you simply add /usr to that reason?

Again, I'm asking for why you WANT it on a separate LVM partition, not why it is there now.

The way I see it, if y ou cannot provide a rational answer to that question, then there is no reason for you to use this as a reason to abandon gentoo, only a reason to merge /usr into /...

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