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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>
To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving the world file to /etc
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:34:30
Message-Id: 4006BEF8.7000708@skylineaero.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Moving the world file to /etc by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
1 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
2 > It is perhaps more suitable for the world file to be stored in
3 > /etc/portage, perhaps more generically in a directory like
4 > /etc/portage/classes or /etc/portage/package-classes, which could hold
5 > any number of files, each of which specify a user-defined package
6 > class. In any case, it is certainly not a cache file, and so it makes
7 > little sense to store it in /var/cache/edb/world.
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9 I suggested the idea of user-defined classes on portage-dev a few weeks ago. It seemed to
10 be generally well received.
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