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From: Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage locations
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:58:17
Message-Id: 20110801195736.GB15630@lisa.schiffbauer.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] portage locations by William Hubbs
1 * William Hubbs schrieb am 01.08.11 um 19:49 Uhr:
2 > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:22:15PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote:
3 > > everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I
4 > > would like to see an addition of one root directory "gentoo" where
5 > > ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff.
6 > > Some of these are already moveable with ${*DIR} variables in
7 > > make.conf, others are not
8 >
9 > I don't agree that we should create a "gentoo" root directory; however,
10 > to be technical, /usr/portage is wrong.
11
12 That was exactly my point in one of my mails in the /usr-Thread.
13
14 I disagree with introducing a non-FHS dir on the rootfs,
15
16 >
17 > I will list what My thoughts would be below your suggestions. Keep in
18 > mind that this is just being thrown out there without thinking about the
19 > details all that much.
20 >
21 > > 20K /gentoo/tmp
22 >
23 > Maybe /tmp?
24
25 Depends on which "kind" of tmp data this is. Should it survive a
26 system reboot? If yes /var/tmp is better.
27
28 I agree with the rest.
29
30 -Marc
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