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

[Aaron W. Swenson]

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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
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