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Cedric Sodhi writes: |
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> There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially |
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> not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. |
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> /var is expected to be heavily written and read from, as it is the case |
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> with the portage tree. |
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That's why I have /var/portage, with subdirectories tree, distfiles, |
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local, layman, packges and (for my 32bit chroot) packages.32. That's how |
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I think it should be, so I change it that way. Recently I also began |
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moving /var/tmp/portage there, so my /var partition could no longer |
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become full because of emerging openoffice. |
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> If again, the logical conclusion will be that portage should be moved |
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> but it is not acted upon but logic is ignored, please ask yourself what |
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> kind of distribution we are. |
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> "It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by |
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> more than 300 developers and thousands of users. " |
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Well, I agree with your point, and I find it strange that this has not |
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been changed, but - I don't care too much about it. I make a few quick |
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changes when I install a Gentoo, and that's it. |
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Wonko |
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