On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao <r...@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote: > On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible >>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, >>> since everyone has an SSD now. >>> >> >> Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet >> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one? > > In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would > like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware > people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions. > > I support Brian on this. If you guys want to have documentation on more > advanced disk tricks, make a separate handbook that specializes in > partitioning and filesystems. The main handbook can include a reference > to it for advanced users.
You seem to have missed it too, so let's someone just spell it out before this goes farther. Ciaran was mocking the argument that's given by proponents of merging / into /usr. He *doesn't* actually feel like that. So let's stop this.
