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On 2012.03.28 08:46, Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:05:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the |
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> > specific objections were. |
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> > IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all. |
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[snip] |
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> > William |
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> If/when this happens, we should also consider improving the internal |
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> structure of the portage folder. At the moment we just throw |
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> everything |
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> in it, which is not very user friendly. I recommend creating a |
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> subfolder |
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> for the actual tree, keeping distfiles and packages out. |
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> For example, my /usr/portage/ on this system looks like this: |
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> portage/ |
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> tree/ |
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> profiles/ -> tree/profiles/ |
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> distfiles/ |
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> packages/ |
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> layman/ |
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> it is a big improvement over the current |
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> distfiles-and-packages-mixed-with-tree-while-layman-wanders state :) |
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> -- |
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> Alex Alexander | wired |
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> + Gentoo Linux Developer |
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> ++ www.linuxized.com |
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Lets move packages/ out of there. I share /usr/portage over NFS to |
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several different arches. Sharing /usr/portage/packages is a really |
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bad idea in that set up. As they all run ~arch, they all build packages |
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so I can downgrade quickly. |
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