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 1NWk9o-0005Zr-OJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:28:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A76CDE080A; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537F7E080A for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o0I5R5s5009584 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:27:06 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0I5R5fx007255; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:27:05 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0I5R5KA007252; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:27:05 +0100 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19283.61737.702870.915791@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:27:05 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again) In-Reply-To: <4B53AD84.7020100@gentoo.org> References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> <82dd739f1001170101i633f2c35n5b330e3be4bdd9dd@mail.gmail.com> <201001172131.28997.bangert@gentoo.org> <4B53AD84.7020100@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0-beta under 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: 8b26db14-3953-4b8f-838c-99cfbd990f7c X-Archives-Hash: d7f1e751a684b8939e8ea8a3f13949e2 >>>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > 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? This depends on your definition of "database". At least some parts of the tree (like the files/ dirs) at not very database-like. > current ranking through my eyes: > 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 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. Ulrich