Re: [gentoo-dev] .gitignore

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/08/2015 23:29, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes:
>
>>
>> On 10 Aug 2015 09:17, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 02:42:21 Mike Frysinger napisał(a):
>>>> On 10 Aug 2015 08:28, Justin (jlec) wrote:
>>>>> I like to propose to add the md5-cache into it. Which other
>>>>> files are of interest?
>>>>
>>>> /distfiles/
>>>> /local/
>>>> /packages/
>>>
>>> Those directories should not be ignored. Those should not exist for
>>> a long time.
>>
>> there's no reason people can't use these on their own system.
>> there's no reason they should be added to the git repo which means,
>> if a user opted to utilize them, they should be ignored.
>
> I agree and I'm not sure what mgorny is basing his statement on anyway.
> Apart from /local/, which I forget the purpose of, the default locations
> for DISTDIR and PKGDIR still seem to be /usr/portage/distfiles
> and /usr/portage/packages. I must admit that I'm struggling to find the
> logic for this in Portage but those are the defaults nonetheless. So
> why would they not exist? I'm certainly using them here and I would
> like to see them in .gitignore.
>


/usr/portage/local was the original location for the user's own personal
ebuild space - an "overlay" if you will.
/usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages are there because
that's where ports has put them for decades, and no-one has gotten
around to changing it in portage yet. FreeBSD defines the use of /usr
very differently to what Linux users are used to.

Those dirs really should be in /var/portage, and the user's overlay has
no business being under main tree itself

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Alan McKinnon
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