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On 27/03/12 21:17, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 27/03/12 03:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> All, |
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>> I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the |
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>> specific objections were. |
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>> IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all. I was |
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>> chatting with another developer who uses |
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>> /var/cache/portage/{tree,distfiles}, and I'm thinking about |
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>> switching my default setup to do this. |
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>> I realize that historically the portage tree has been installed |
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>> under /usr, but Can we consider changing this default for new |
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>> installations and providing instructions for users for how to get |
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>> the portage tree out of /usr? William |
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> IIRC, 'cache' can be a volatile storage area, that is, anything in it |
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> can be removed. One's system is b0rked (or at least, portage is) if |
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> /path/to/portage/profiles goes missing. I wholeheartedly agree that |
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> distfiles should be moved to /var , but I think the portage tree |
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> shouldn't be there.. |
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> (at least, shouldn't be in /var/cache/ ; maybe /var/lib/ ? of course |
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> then we're colliding with the existing use of /var/lib/portage ...) |
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Portage tree is a kind of database (I know, I know -- long shot), so maybe |
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/var/db/portage for the tree and /var/cache/portage/distfiles (or drop portage |
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from that path) for distfiles? |
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Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xF6A80E46 |
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