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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:31:56
Message-Id: 20081231033112.4db604e5.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files by Fabio Rossi
1 On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:12:23 +0100
2 Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@××××××.it> wrote:
3
4 > I'm proposing to reorganize the files related to Gentoo
5 > inside /var/lib. Currently we have this situation (at least on my
6 > system):
7 >
8 > /var/lib/eselect
9 > /var/lib/gentoo/enews
10 > /var/lib/herdstat/
11 > /var/lib/module-rebuild
12 > /var/lib/portage
13 >
14 > The main dir should be something like /var/lib/gentoo, so I'd see all
15 > gentoo-related files as
16 >
17 > /var/lib/gentoo/eselect
18 > /var/lib/gentoo/enews
19 > /var/lib/gentoo/herdstat/
20 > /var/lib/gentoo/module-rebuild
21 > /var/lib/gentoo/portage
22 >
23 > What do you think about?
24
25 Any reason for that? Aesthetics aren't a very compelling argument IMO,
26 and the FHS also seems to favor the current layout (in my
27 interpretation at least, as we're not really talking about
28 "inter-related applications" in technical terms).
29
30 Marius

Replies

Subject Author
RE: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@××××××.it>