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Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

Mario Vukelic

2008-05-15

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On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 23:13 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I was surprised to see an install option which was intelligent enough
> to delete /var, /usr, and so on but leave /home alone.

That's a great feature, isn't it.

> Silly not to split it out but not
> having /home overwritten was very nice. :)

Not so silly. In case you are interested, here is a discussion about
this going on right now on ubuntu-devel-discuss (it isn't the first
one), and Colin Watson has IMHO very convincing arguments for why
splitting out /home can't really be done right now.


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