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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:14:13
Message-Id: 1531167218.1159.15.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by William Hubbs
1 W dniu pon, 09.07.2018 o godzinie 15∶11 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs
2 napisał:
3 > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:43:31PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > sys-apps/portage-mgorny has already done that. The defaults locations
5 > > have been changed to:
6 > >
7 > > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles"
8 > > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages"
9 > > RPMDIR="/var/cache/portage/rpm"
10 > >
11 > > Plus repositories are in /var/db/repos/<name>. This is also the layout
12 > > used by eselect-repository.
13 >
14 > I like this idea, but slightly different; I think we should stay out of
15 > /var/db. We don't want folks to go messing around in there and nuke
16 > /var/db/pkg by mistake.
17 >
18
19 Following that reasoning, we shouldn't use /var at all because people
20 might 'go messing around in there and nuke /var/* by mistake'. Or any
21 directory. Our only hope is Windows where we can create P:\ and not
22 worry that people might 'go messing around in there and nuke the system
23 by mistake'.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>