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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 6:11 PM Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is it a violation of the FHS? /usr is for readonly data and the portage tree is generally readonly, except when being updated. The same is true of everything else in /usr. |
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It is application metadata. It belongs in /var. No other packages |
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write to /usr when they're doing internal updates. Obviously you need |
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a writable /usr to actually install package changes, but that |
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shouldn't be necessary just to sync the repository. |
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I was asking around and it seems like most distros stick their |
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repositories in /var/lib. I can't imagine that too many would have |
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even considered sticking them in /usr. |
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> I am confused as to how we only now realized it was a FHS violation when it has been there for ~15 years. I was under the impression that /usr was the correct place for it. |
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It has certainly been pointed out in the past. Nothing was changed |
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for the same reason that nothing will probably be changed this time - |
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people don't like change and the people who know better just slowly |
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patch around Gentoo's oddities. Somebody was just posting a manifesto |
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about deploying more experimental technologies, and here we can't move |
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a repository out of /usr. |
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And if nothing else, can we at least move /usr/portage/distfiles |
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someplace else? Surely you have to agree that this doesn't belong in |
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usr, or nested in the middle of a repository? |
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Rich |
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