Apparently, though unproven, at 00:23 on Sunday 06 February 2011, Mark Shields did opine thusly:
> > It's just plain outright stupid to have a default location for something > > (that > > by definition is variable) in a place that by definition (or by de-facto > > consent) must be mountable read-only and have no ill effects on the rest > > of the machine. > > > > -- > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > Just put portage on it's own partition (LVM) and be done with it. Mark, I cannot believe that you actually typed that, you know better. But my eyes don't lie. So. Someone comes along with a valid beef about a default. This default can be changed, this is Gentoo. Ye gods, we change shit around here at the drop of a hat for no good reason sometimes. And your answer is to install LVM with it's deps, re-organize the disk, learn how to use lvm (not everyone knows the product or uses it) then go through the pain of moving stuff which not all users know how to do. All to get around a silly ancient default that long ago failed the "most useful to most people" test. You want to re-think your answer maybe? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
