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I agree with most of your suggestions. |
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As far as DISTDIR, however, it may be less dynamic, but that is largely |
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due to the lack of a convenient way to delete only the unneeded files, |
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which, if done, would result in a fair amount of hard disk |
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fragmentation. Furthermore, it is still cache data. |
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As far as PORTDIR being moved to /usr/share when /usr is shared over a |
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network, I do not believe that would generally be useful, because if |
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/usr is shared, building is not going to be done except on a single |
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machine, and so there is no need for all of the machines to have access |
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to the portage tree. |
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PKGDIR (and RPMDIR) are also cache data (generated by compiling the |
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source), and are furthermore relatively dynamic (thus more suitable for |
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/var, because they lead to fragmentation) on most systems that generate |
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them. |
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
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