Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:48:04
Message-Id: 201003031845.11717.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation" by stosss
1 On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:43:55 stosss wrote:
2 > I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion.
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4 > So why does stage three put portage in
5 >
6 > /usr
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9 I'm not sure this will mean much to you, but the REAL reasons are that
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11 1. It is a historical artifact that no-one thus far saw fit to change,
12 2. FreeBSD does it that way.
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15 Yes, #2 is for real. Read the ancient histories of where Gentoo originally
16 came from as written by drobbins to find out why
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21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com