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 -- [email protected] mailing list
