Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

[Raymond Jennings]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:47 PM Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:49:37 -0700
> Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > In that case, I vote for /var/cache/portage, since that's literally
> > what purpose it serves.  Namely, the cache of the gentoo infra's
> > current copy of teh portage tree.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Raymond Jennings
> > > <shentino@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Just for the record, but would putting a setting inside
> > >> /etc/portage/make.conf be the appropriate way to handle this?
> > >>
> > >
> > > The settings already exist (and have existed for 10 years.) This
> > > bikeshed discussion is literally trying to decide what the default
> > > should be.
> > >
> > > -A
> > >
> >
>
> This is not a personal attack against you.  Just picked this one to say
> something again...
>
>
> PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling it the "portage" tree.  The repo name is
> "gentoo".  "portage is the default package manager, but not the only
> choice.  Far too often, it takes awhile to figure out what someone is
> trying to say because of that confusion between the tree and the
> package manager.

Point of order:

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots and numerous pieces of
documentation call it "portage"

The confusion is ingrained by documentation.

> PLUS, it has been decided already long ago that the directory name
> should reflect the repository name.  We have been enforcing that rule
> for overlays for a long time.  It has just been taking a long time to
> get our tooling in order so that we can change our own to follow that
> rule.
>
> So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path.
>
> --
> Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
>
>