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On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Well, the impact is about the same wether you want to change one or the |
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> other (btw, what about other admin tools on Gentoo, e.g. |
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> paludis/pkgcore, by your definition they'd also have to go |
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> into /var/lib/gentoo, right?) |
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Yes. So you don't think that a /var/lib/<distribution_name> directory makes |
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sense for collecting all admin files *strictly* related to the distribution, |
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do you? |
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If portage/paludis/pkgcore were used in other distributions I'd not consider |
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their files related to the admin purposes of one specific distrib, at that |
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point their files could be directly put inside /var/lib. |
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> and that impact is non-trivial (it's not so much the code changes themselves |
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> but the inevitable transition problems). |
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This might be the real issue, the transition problems generated by the move. |
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> Compared to the IMO very questionable benefit of a "cleaner" |
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> filesystem (by hiding files users usually don't see anyway one level |
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> deeper in the tree structure) that more or less goes against the FHS, |
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> that doesn't sound like a good deal to me. |
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Ok, but at the end we have an exception in the tree (/var/lib/gentoo/news/) |
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which is not justified (looking at the current discussion). My proposal has |
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arisen after having seen the /var/lib/gentoo/news/ hierarchy. |
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Regards, |
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Fabio |