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

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:12 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:13:57PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> W dniu czw, 12.07.2018 o godzinie 15∶51 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman
>> napisał:
>> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Well, in my examples I proposed it as that is the software that
>> > created the path, but then again in the spirit of PMS portage isn't
>> > the only PM.
>> >
>> > So:
>> > /var/lib/repos/gentoo ?
>> >
>>
>> Subdirectories of /var/lib should be named after the tool/package name.
>> There's no tool or package called 'repos'.
>
> Technically mgorny is correct here. FHS requires that everything under
> /var/lib be under a directory for the package or for the distro [1].
> Note the comment about packaging support in 5.8.1.
>
> Based on that this is my thought:
>
> * /var/lib/portage is for portage specific stuff -- maybe even /var/db/pkg
> in the future should go to /var/lib/portage/pkg.
>
> * /var/lib/gentoo, on the other hand, could be where repos, distfiles
> and binpkgs go.
> William
>
> [1]
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varlibVariableStateInformation

/var/lib/gentoo/portage then. (Or /var/lib/gentoo/repos/gentoo if you
care about PMS diplomacy.)

People can just move it somewhere and/or use symbolic links if they
want to use a different path.

Besides having /var/lib/gentoo/portage being set as "PORTDIR", I also
have DISTDIR=/var/lib/gentoo/distfiles
and PKGDIR=/var/lib/gentoo/packages.

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