* Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-30 03:33]:
> yes, I'd say you are going a bit overboard. 

very slightly, if at all.

> nor do I see any real-life benefit to a /usr/local partition.

I do, a lot.
prevent 3rd party crap shit from overflowing /usr.
and, that way, you can even mount /usr RO unless you do upgrades.

> A long time ago, I had a nice little webserver set up, then my 
> friend Henning said, "Here, try this chroot'ed Apache patch"...which 
> absolutely hosed my grand plans, as my /var partition was too small, as 
> all the web documents were served from /home/<user> directories.

shalalalala... :)

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