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

[Richard Yao]

On 03/27/12 15:59, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> 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
>
> /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.
>
> Further, Portage is the official package manager. So, it make more
> sense to say "Paludis is compatible with the Portage tree" rather than
> "Portage is compatible with the Paludis tree." Portage is the
> reference implementation. Whether or not there are other managers are
> out there is moot.
>
> - Aaron
>

Or we could just use /var/portage.