Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:31 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:25 AM, George Shapovalov <george@g.o> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 20 December 2012 09:11:39 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> >> > /var/cache/repositories/local    <== the new location for a local overlay
>> >>
>> >> Also I wonder if local overlays should be in /var/cache? It might not
>> >> always be possible to restore them.
>> > So, this is the present /usr/local/portage? What's wrong with it?
>> > According to FHS, /usr/local/ is reserved for local admin meddling, which fits
>> > the bill rather nicely fo local overlay. This is the one location that was
>> > actually making sense from the beginning.
>>
>> I actually like the /var/cache/repositories approach.  You can always
>> add a symlink to it if you want to for convenience (as I already do
>> for /var/lib/portage/world).  There is really nothing special about
>> /usr/portage, other than it being the lowest-priority overlay.
>
>  If we do this, I don't like the name repositories -- what kind of
>  repositories? should I put git repositories in there?

I was pondering this, too. How about 'pms', for trees and overlays?

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