Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

[Stroller]

On 2 Mar 2010, at 15:51, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> ... I'm happy with the new default arrangement: mainstream
> packages under /usr/portage; layman overlays under /var/lib/layman;
> and
> my own variations under /usr/local/portage. Nice clean boundaries.

Not that I really care, but I find this layout somewhat illogical.

It makes perfect sense to me that /usr/local/portage should be the  
local version of /usr/portage

But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different  
general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of  
my head, but putting something in "/var" ought to indicate that it is  
somewhat different in nature &/or purpose to something in "/usr". The  
main Portage tree & a layman overlay are not so fundamentally  
different, IMO.

Stroller.