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On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp, |
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> /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by |
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> Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages are eventually used on |
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> other distributions/systems, should they then use another path? |
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The path could be configured of course but, again, I see a few chances of |
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having this tools outside gentoo, the proposal is based also on this idea. |
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> Mind that this only addresses the FHS part of my mail, you haven't |
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> really answered my question: What's the benefit of changing things? |
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> Change for the sake of change is rarely a good idea (unless you work in |
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> PR/marketing ;) |
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The main benefit is a cleaner filesystem, I don't know your opinion but I hate |
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to see sparse files around the tree and waste time in discovering their |
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source :-) Moreover IMHO it gives me the impression of a better design. |
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> > In the opposite direction, in according to your opinion, I don't see |
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> > a reason to have /var/lib/gentoo/news instead of something |
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> > like /var/lib/gentoo-news. |
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> Right. But retroactively changing GLEP 42 and all affected packages is |
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> a bit much just to avoid a generic "gentoo" directory. |
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So we can exploit this condition to collect all gentoo related files inside |
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this dir ;-) |
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Fabio |
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