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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:57:56
Message-Id: 4B5448A0.7010007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again) by Alex Alexander
1 Alex Alexander wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
3 >> I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really
4 >> should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure,
5 >> like /var/portage, /var/portage/tree (the current
6 >> PORTDIR), /var/portage/distfiles (i.e. split out distfiles from the tree
7 >> itself), /var/portage/overlays/layman or /var/portage/layman.
8 >> I of course realize that change the structure of the whole portdir would
9 >> had inresting complications, so take this comment just as serious as you
10 >> like.
11 <snip>
12 > /var/portage/
13 > /var/portage/tree
14 > /var/portage/layman
15 > /var/portage/overlays (non-layman managed, layman could also be in here)
16 > /var/portage/distfiles
17 > /var/portage/packages
18
19 Not that I really care, but are these "portage-only" and we might need
20 /var/{paludis,pkgcore,...}/*? So what about /var/gentoo/*?
21
22 /haubi/
23 --
24 Michael Haubenwallner
25 Gentoo on a different level

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