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On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:13 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> W dniu pon, 09.07.2018 o godzinie 15∶11 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs |
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> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:43:31PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > sys-apps/portage-mgorny has already done that. The defaults locations |
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> > > have been changed to: |
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> > > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" |
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> > > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" |
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> > > RPMDIR="/var/cache/portage/rpm" |
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> > > Plus repositories are in /var/db/repos/<name>. This is also the layout |
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> > > used by eselect-repository. |
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> > I like this idea, but slightly different; I think we should stay out of |
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> > /var/db. We don't want folks to go messing around in there and nuke |
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> > /var/db/pkg by mistake. |
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> Following that reasoning, we shouldn't use /var at all because people |
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> might 'go messing around in there and nuke /var/* by mistake'. Or any |
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> directory. Our only hope is Windows where we can create P:\ and not |
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> worry that people might 'go messing around in there and nuke the system |
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> by mistake'. |
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Though I do prefer /var/lib or /var/cache over /var/db, simply because |
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/var/lib is actually in FHS. |
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That said, all my comments should be taken as suggestions. I don't |
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really have a huge concern with most of these proposals. Any of them |
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are better than /usr, with distfiles being stacked inside the repo |
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(ugh!). |
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Rich |