Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Thomas Bushnell BSG] >> Um: >> >> /bin/mount foo:whatever /bin > > That's a huge administrative hassle. Not only do you have to figure > out what programs and libraries /bin/mount depends on so you can make > sure they're on your real root partition, but the packaging system > doesn't - and shouldn't - do anything to help you keep the two copies > of /bin in sync.
Um, that "figuring out" is *exactly* the figuring out that you are *already* doing in maintaining a separate /usr. If you want to document this in a reliable way somewhere for the people who are doing this, great! > You would put up with all *that* for a 6-megabyte savings on your root > filesystem? My /usr is rather more than 6 MB. > This is another absurdity brought to us all by the Committee for > Considering Theoretical Angles Without Bothering to Look at Real > Numbers. I should mention that I'm still waiting for your benchmark > results on how a drastic reduction in /usr/lib size speeds up the > runtime linker. On *any* filesystem, O(n)-lookups or not. Your demand to run a benchmark does not translate to an obligation on my part to run it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
