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 1NWbnl-0003zi-C2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:32:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DB4DE0796; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.132.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F688E0796 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 84-238-114-252.u.parknet.dk ([84.238.114.252] helo=marsupilami.localnet); authenticated by wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) id 1NWbnP-0006dE-Jl; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:32:27 +0100 From: Thilo Bangert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:31:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31.11; KDE/4.3.4; i686; ; ) References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> <82dd739f1001170101i633f2c35n5b330e3be4bdd9dd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82dd739f1001170101i633f2c35n5b330e3be4bdd9dd@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Gentoo 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart33276248.4CbCKYt2os"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001172131.28997.bangert@gentoo.org> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;bangert@gentoo.org;1263760348;e2569091; X-Archives-Salt: 23436368-121c-465e-ab79-2b641ef77b1a X-Archives-Hash: b64a5094116566c6c1a855d40057292f --nextPart33276248.4CbCKYt2os Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ciaran McCreesh said: > I realise this is a lost cause, but... Repositories are databases, so > /var/db/ is your friend. >=20 i like it. Closely followed by /var/lib/layman... wikipedia says in=20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard /var/lib/ State information. Persistent data modified by programs as they run,=20 e.g., databases, packaging system metadata, etc. /var/layman i dislike due to this sentence in the FHS: "Applications must generally not add directories to the top level of=20 /var. Such directories should only be added if they have some system-wide=20 implication[...]" IMHO layman does not qualify. i am not religious on these things, however. kind regards Thilo --nextPart33276248.4CbCKYt2os Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAktTc6AACgkQxRElEoA5AneqEACdHAIgSlz9Zcyt/qZnGkOeILZU xtQAoKtAMbcvb/6UL3viifjl7iOjsM/q =yzPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart33276248.4CbCKYt2os--