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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:23:42
Message-Id: 1531347809.20022.3.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by Richard Yao
1 W dniu śro, 11.07.2018 o godzinie 18∶11 -0400, użytkownik Richard Yao
2 napisał:
3 > > On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:34 PM Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
6 > > >
7 > > > On my system, /usr/portage is a separate mountpoint. There is no need to have on,h top level directories be separate mountpoints.
8 > >
9 > > It makes sense to follow FHS. Sure, I can work around poor designs by
10 > > sticking mount points all over the place, or manually setting my
11 > > config to put stuff in sane locations. It makes more sense to put all
12 > > the volatile stuff in /var, than to mix it up all over the place and
13 > > get users to set up separate mountpoints to make up for it.
14 >
15 > Is it a violation of the FHS? /usr is for readonly data and the portage tree is generally readonly, except when being updated. The same is true of everything else in /usr.
16 >
17 > I am confused as to how we only now realized it was a FHS violation when it has been there for ~15 years. I was under the impression that /usr was the correct place for it.
18 > >
19
20 And we're back to the usual Gentoo argument of 'it was like this for
21 N years'. So FYI, something 'being there for ~15 years' doesn't make it
22 right. It only means that:
23
24 a. Gentoo devs were wrong 15 years ago.
25
26 b. Gentoo devs are still wrong today.
27
28 c. Gentoo devs can't manage to make such a simple change because they're
29 too concerned about hurting somebody's feelings about a path.
30
31 --
32 Best regards,
33 Michał Górny

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