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From: purslow@×××××××××.ca
To: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage --> /var/portage
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:45:10
Message-Id: 20040116224507.GD2518@sympatico.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage --> /var/portage by Matthew Kennedy
1 040116 Matthew Kennedy wrote:
2 > /usr/share --> "share" means exactly that -- sharable
3 > because it is only supposed to contain architecture independent stuff.
4 > You should be able to share /usr/share via NFS etc. to other machines,
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6 i always understood it to mean shareable among users on the system:
7 eg fonts & docs, which everyone wants access to.
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9 moving all the Portage stuff /usr -> /var does seem to make sense
10 & correspond to FHS rules.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage --> /var/portage John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>