From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWmdh-0003By-3o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:07:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40313E077C; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B672E077C for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0E01B400B for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:06:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.928 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.928 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.329, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d0cz7zknYUDX for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B70D67EE9 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWmcx-00049F-B4 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:06:23 +0100 Received: from liten.csbnet.se ([95.80.45.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:06:23 +0100 Received: from xake by liten.csbnet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:06:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Hjalmarsson Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1263801958.9240.14.camel@lillen.dodi> References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> <82dd739f1001170101i633f2c35n5b330e3be4bdd9dd@mail.gmail.com> <201001172131.28997.bangert@gentoo.org> <4B53AD84.7020100@gentoo.org> <19283.61737.702870.915791@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: liten.csbnet.se In-Reply-To: <19283.61737.702870.915791@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5c64fde1-70cb-490d-a325-b5da9829282f X-Archives-Hash: 71c1c20cf96b0f416b18a5d922ad9d71 m=C3=A5n 2010-01-18 klockan 06:27 +0100 skrev Ulrich Mueller: > >>>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >=20 > > isn't a package tree somehow having "system-wide implications"? > > i'm not really sure about /var/db - doesn't seem to be in FHS. > > is a package tree a database? >=20 > This depends on your definition of "database". At least some parts of > the tree (like the files/ dirs) at not very database-like. >=20 > > current ranking through my eyes: >=20 > > 1) /var/layman con: adds folder to /var, maybe should not > > 2) /var/db/layman con: you tell me > > 3) /var/lib/layman con: not really /var/lib-style data >=20 > I still think that it should be close to the portage tree, therefore > in /usr. But if you go for /var then take /var/layman. >=20 > Ulrich >=20 >=20 I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure, like /var/portage, /var/portage/tree (the current PORTDIR), /var/portage/distfiles (i.e. split out distfiles from the tree itself), /var/portage/overlays/layman or /var/portage/layman. I of course realize that change the structure of the whole portdir would had inresting complications, so take this comment just as serious as you like. But overlays really was an afterthought?