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

[Marc Schiffbauer]

* Aaron W. Swenson schrieb am 27.03.12 um 21:59 Uhr:
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> On 03/27/2012 03:47 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, William Hubbs
> > <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:25:58AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> >>> On 28 March 2012 08:05, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
> >>> wrote: /var/cache/repositories/gentoo/*
> >>> /var/cache/repositories/perl-experimental/*
> >>> /var/cache/distfiles/* /var/cache/packages/*
> >>
> >> These sub directories are all portage related, so it is best to
> >> put them under /var/cache/portage. Look in /var/cache on your
> >> system; most of the directories in there (at least on my system)
> >> are named for the program that uses them.
> >
> > The gentoo-x86 ebuild tree is not necessarily portage related.
> > However I think we should paint the bike shed '/srv/tree'
> >
> > -A
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> /var/cache/{ebuilds,distfiles,eclasses,profiles}
>
> Or we can just call it Portage.
>
> We call it the "Portage tree", just like we call it gentoo-x86 but
> that isn't what it only contains, in several places, both in official
> docs and unofficial docs, tweets, pins, notes, stickies....
>
> /var/cache/portage is my vote.

+1

I like the idea of one directory because I wthink lots of people do
have that stuff in a dedicated filesystem which today is mounted on
/usr/portage. It would only have to be mounted to /var/cache/portage
and this people were done with "migration".

Having several directories will make it much harder to make "the
portage stuff" be in its own fs. (be it several fs or symlinks ...)

-Marc
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