Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

Where you run into trouble is the case (perhaps rare now) that you restore
/usr, and there were files in /etc (or elsewhere) that did not get restored
(or not correctly). This can cause package managers significantly more
grief than should be the case. Don't ask me how I know this, but I know
this cold. J



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Subject: Re: [LinuxDesktop4i] Why are you on a *nix desktop?




Most of the package management tools (apt, rpm) can rebuild the cache based
off of the package lists stored in /usr.

My general layout for partitions is:

/boot
/
/usr
/home

BC




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Re: [LinuxDesktop4i] Why are you on a *nix desktop?



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Interesting.

I run FreeBSD, not Linux... but the package manager wouldn't care unless
I restored a different version of the packages from the one it has in
it's databases...

Lukas Beeler wrote:

Well, that won't work on any of the major Linux distributions, as the
package management would be highly confused.