Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:57:17
Message-Id:	`23364.26319.786143.6269@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by Ulrich Mueller

1	>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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3	>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote:
4	>> Agreed, /var/db I guess is a Gentoo invention of some kind?
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6	> No, it exists in FreeBSD too.
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8	As was pointed out to me, it exists in all three BSD variants [1,2,3].
9	Its purpose there is for "miscellaneous automatically generated
10	system-specific database files".
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12	Ulrich
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14	[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier%287%29
15	[2] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier+7+NetBSD-current
16	[3] https://man.openbsd.org/hier