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On 3 Mar 2010, at 16:33, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon writes: |
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> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> That's right, they should both be in /var. |
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>> I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted |
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>> read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS). |
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> Any idea why it's different with Gentoo in the first place? /usr also |
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> always sounded wrong to me for the portage tree. |
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It probably just goes back to a snap descision by Daniel Robbins a |
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decade (or nearly) ago. |
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At one time he wasn't intending to distribute in the same way - |
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Portage evolved from a script that he wrote to help him build a binary |
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distro he was planning, so perhaps /usr/portage wasn't intended to be |
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installed on users' systems (only on his own machine). |
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Stroller. |
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