Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:36 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick did 
opine thusly:

> On Sunday 28 November 2010 15:28:01 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:07 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick
> > did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> > > > This doesn't look right. layman has never installed overlays in that
> > > > location for me.
> > >
> > > Hmm ... it does for me!  o_O
> > >
> > > $ ls -la /var/lib/layman/enlightenment/
> > > total 16
> > > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 25 Nov 27 10:33 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  8 Nov 27 10:33 ..
> > > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4 Nov 27 10:33 app-admin
> > > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4 Nov 27 10:33 app-misc
> >
> > Well now, that's just fscking brain dead. Putting data files into areas
> > of the file system where executables were there first. Tut, tut, tsk,
> > tsk.
> >
> > Now that I think about it, I recall layman doing something like this the
> > first time I used it. It drives me batty, along with portage putting the
> > tree in /usr/portage so now layman.cfg has this on all my machines
> >
> > storage   : /var/portage/local/layman
> >
> > and I *always* change $PORTDIR to be /var/portage
> >
> >
> > I'd forgotten *why* I always do this. Thanks for the reminder.
>
> The plot thickens ...
>
> I seem to have set up:
>
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
> PORTDIR=/usr/portage
> DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
> PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
>
> and fair enough layman is in there:
>
> $ ls -la /usr/local/portage/
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  3 Jun 10 16:38 .
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 13 Jun  8 22:16 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  3 Jun 10 16:38 layman
>
> but it's empty, except for a make.conf file:
>
> $ cat /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
>
> I am guessing that updating/reinstalling layman shifted storage around to
> its default:
>
> storage   : /var/lib/layman
>
> and the make.conf file in there says:
>
> $ cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
> /var/lib/layman/enlightenment
> $PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> "
>
> I recall that after some version the default layman overlays location
> changed and there was a post in this list too (but forget when).
>
> Perhaps if you post a bug for a more sane storage location, then the layman
> devs will make a more considered decision on this.

I'm starting to remember more about this now. There was an elog about these 
changed directories a while back, I read them and realized I didn't have to do 
anything as my layman configs now had explicit directories and didn't rely on 
defaults anymore.

I don't think a feature request will go anywhere. The layman dev recently 
changed things, and the fight about PORTDIR has been going on since there was 
a portage. All whinging about the location of PORTDIR thus far has led to 
exactly nothing. Occasionally one sees feedback on b.g.o. about how the 
default is just a default, feel free to change it.

On more business matters, have the ebuilds in enlightenment overlay 
successfully installed for you? And has the category for EFL's media libs 
settled down? This business of media-libs vs x11-libs caused me huge amounts 
of grief about a year ago....


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