Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-07-29

[Raymond Jennings]

I for one would like to ask why disfiles is being kept inside the
"portage tree" in the first place.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:12 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>
> >> /var/lib/{package-manager,pm}/gentoo
> >> /var/cache/{package-manager,pm}/distfiles
> >> /var/cache/{package-manager,pm}/packages
>
> > I don't really like the cache variant here as that data should be
> > able to be reconstructed by the application, which a distfile etc
> > necessarily isn't (e.g for fetch restricted packages it might get
> > lost),
>
> If users keep precious distfiles in a separate dir (which can be
> specified with PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS) then the distdir is pretty much a
> cache.
>
> > but /var/lib/package-manager/{repos,distfiles,packages} works well
> > for me
>
> That would work too, except that the top level of the gentoo repo
> would be at /var/lib/package-manager/repos/gentoo, which is awkward to
> type (especially if you compare it to /usr/portage) and has already
> _five_ path components.
>
> Ulrich