On 2007-09-07, Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>
> How much space does Slackware's documentation indicate is needed for
> an installation? Most of that will be in /usr. That's the calculation
> you can work from. Add to it as much as you feel is necessary for
> future growth (/usr simply doesn't grow, except with new OS releases),
> and allow for having /usr/src (and /usr/local) be either a mount point
> or a symlink to a writable partition.

For CPAN users, you'd also want to allow /usr/lib/perl5 to be a mount
point/symlink (or remember to mount -w before installing from CPAN).
(Still, I'm going to test it out and see how it works; been meaning to
do so for some time.)

--keith

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On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:03:24 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:

> On 2007-09-07, Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>>
>> How much space does Slackware's documentation indicate is needed for an
>> installation? Most of that will be in /usr. That's the calculation
>> you can work from. Add to it as much as you feel is necessary for
>> future growth (/usr simply doesn't grow, except with new OS releases),
>> and allow for having /usr/src (and /usr/local) be either a mount point
>> or a symlink to a writable partition.
>
> For CPAN users, you'd also want to allow /usr/lib/perl5 to be a mount


Though, that'd be a good accompanying idea to use the
upcoming winning shot to finally get rid of this kind of
"low jewelry" and finally use some language that's not just
the mongrel off a dazibao and a speedballed C0B0L highpriestess ;-)


> point/symlink (or remember to mount -w before installing from CPAN).

Best reflex would be to mount -r everytime someone comes along
with words like CPAN, Perl, update ,+\

> (Still, I'm going to test it out and see how it works; been meaning to
> do so for some time.)
>
> --keith

Ah, dreams, are my reality )

Keith Keller wrote:

> For CPAN users, you'd also want to allow /usr/lib/perl5 to be a mount
> point/symlink (or remember to mount -w before installing from CPAN).

Oh, yeah, and I suppose the same is true for Python when it comes
to installing modules for that as well. I almost never use Python,
so the stock Slcakware packages are fine for me for that, but Perl I
always use a locally installed version, and so completely forget that
this would be a problem, but you're right. It needs to be considered.
(just the "site_perl" directory needs to be symlinked, right?)

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On 2007-09-07, Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Keith Keller wrote:
>
>> For CPAN users, you'd also want to allow /usr/lib/perl5 to be a mount
>> point/symlink (or remember to mount -w before installing from CPAN).
>
> Oh, yeah, and I suppose the same is true for Python when it comes
> to installing modules for that as well. I almost never use Python,
> so the stock Slcakware packages are fine for me for that, but Perl I
> always use a locally installed version, and so completely forget that
> this would be a problem, but you're right. It needs to be considered.
> (just the "site_perl" directory needs to be symlinked, right?)

That sounds about right, though I haven't tested; some exotic modules
(like mod_perl, which is tightly integrated with Apache, so usually
can't be built through CPAN anyway) might write files elsewhere too.
You can tell CPAN to use a different install location, IIRC.

--keith

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