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Il 24/12/2012 10:11, Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: |
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> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:17:06 +0100 |
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> Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. |
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yes and no, |
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yes it contain data and executable needed to update gentoo system, in a |
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hierarchical and relational form |
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no, it's a cache of a remote database generally mantained from others. |
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Actually also the difference in importance between /var/db/pkg and |
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/????/ebuild_tree is very high. |
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Loose the pkg db and your best plan is to re-emerge the entire world, |
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provided you still have a copy of /var/lib/portage/world (or |
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equivalent), loose the latter and have a laugh. |
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To put those in the same category seem risky |
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Not that I personally care since everything gentoo related is kept in /g |
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on my systems, also this for various reason mainly because it's |
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something used to mantain a system and if maintainaince is not needed |
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it's very easy this way to remove. |
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>> I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem Hierarchy |
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>> Standard: |
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>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY |
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>> I would prefer something that blends with FHS. |
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> That's ok, Gentoo doesn't follow FHS. |
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And it's ok to "prefere" to stay near a standard and use it as a |
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guideline, for various reason, less difference with others and because a |
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bunch of people has already toughted on it, to name just two. |
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Raising to "MUST blend" would be indeed not beneficial. |
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Regards, |
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Francesco Riosa |
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