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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> That is the other part of this debate, some are saying /var/lib, and |
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> others are saying /var/db. |
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> It turns out that /var/db is much more common than I thought it was |
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> (it exists in all *bsd variants at least), so that could be an argument |
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> for putting the repos in there. |
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FreeBSD does not put the package repository in /var/db. |
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Portage cloned many of the file paths from FreeBSD along with the |
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name/concept. FreeBSD puts their package repository in /usr/ports, so |
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I'm not sure I'd hold them out as a great example of FHS. |
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Rich |
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