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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage is misplaced in /usr
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:37:36
Message-Id: iik8oa$t0j$2@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr by Cedric Sodhi
1 On 02/05/2011 08:43 PM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
2 > There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially
3 > not) the distfiles should reside in /usr.
4 >[...]
5 > If you can think of good counter arguement which *logically* supports
6 > that portage should by default reside in /usr (including the distfiles
7 > and everything else variable) please tell us. If not, please refrain
8 > from logically irrelevant statements such as the above, "you can always
9 > do<insert some random workarround here>" or similar ones.
10
11 How is utilizing the fully supported configuration options of portage a
12 "random workaround"? It's neither random, *nor* a workaround.