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On 2017-12-06 16:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> And just to round off a mostly pointless discussion with little real |
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> merit, the really stupid thing about portage is why oh why are ports |
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> and |
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> distfiles in /usr? |
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I'm really surprised that someone recognized this or may be does |
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question this. Fortunately it is easy to change for the user on a per |
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installation base, but not for the upstream because of the things which |
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follows. |
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> I'll tell you why, it's because that's where FreeBSD puts them, and |
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> drobbins built Gentoo back in the day heavily borrowing from his |
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> pleasant FreeBSD experience (he went there for 6 months recovering from |
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> his departure from another distro, the one with the "toxic |
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> personality"). And no-one ever bothered changing that initial decision |
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> a classic case of cargo cult |
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That you not aware of it doesn't indicate that it wasn't bothered. |
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Perhaps people will not waste (any more) time with senseless discussions |
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