On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Alex Efros wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote:
> > Drawbacks:
> >   according to FHS /usr may be a remote filesystem, but /etc/localtime has
> > to exist during boot.
>
> Can anybody in _this_ maillist confirm importance of "remote /usr" support?
>
> In my experience remote /usr is very rare case nowadays and supporting it
> "by default" result in few very uncomfortable things - in addition to
> /etc/localtime example I can add grep ebuild which compile grep without
> perl regexp support (only because libperl is in /usr while grep is in /).

I use an NFS mounted /usr file system extensively, although not on gentoo
systems - I've not got any deployments running gentoo that are large
enough to make it worth the effort.


-Ronan
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