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 1NWIls-0004qF-NL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:13:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DA85E0818 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f228.google.com (mail-fx0-f228.google.com [209.85.220.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA6FE058E for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:46:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm28 with SMTP id 28so835853fxm.26 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:46:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=kp2CwMb+34nPQcIXP8X/QBob56oetoLK72S5gvnX4IQ=; b=orAOyrkooQeNCG2gnvVIs6yPwM54wfxSJpKmSDH49ugSgRnL3wh1V4gEgVXAgXtRMv 5FZg6gwV99G8x33zZqmO1BGGH9ZZDmfaQDM4uvxcEZG3He6yLSWSrwK6imlziFUh/0En FSX+fPZv5FipC8F5mqaw5CMAIiNXOQDHcS9ME= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=rl3+uAdxrn/yHwOAUj2h1lWTfto7uc+2thlSppCKyHniKyl72SV7XdtLlC5p8kN1kV RwIE41zsu+2QWOMktUXhgthVGIMCIZMeBcWut1BA8TAniHsqAJj+iPWwUItmi/9m2QZ+ C4H7uLLCCCC2nFO14Ycesgdfl7i4OY4NuQebI= 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 Sender: unhollow@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.17.70 with SMTP id r6mr5027007faa.22.1263681968367; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:46:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100116113824.1363962d@lappy.evolone.org> References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> <4B511556.4080409@gentoo.org> <201001152046.00963.vapier@gentoo.org> <4B511C86.6020002@gentoo.org> <1263629567.31396.41.camel@tablet> <20100116130646.GA21961@laptop> <1263668258.26113.10.camel@lillen.dodi> <20100116113824.1363962d@lappy.evolone.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:46:08 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 94ef304300c0bff0 Message-ID: <477338b91001161446y7c230515k5e15eb8029444236@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Benedikt_B=F6hm?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 53a85d32-8541-40d2-930e-c5e8bae9e3a5 X-Archives-Hash: 7792811b4d1c6047fc3191d20d9a67be On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Michael Higgins wrote: > Yes, PORTDIR default location under /usr was a totally stupid thing. > Please don't repeat it... One thing all you /usr naggers forget is, that /var cannot be shared read-only via nfs (or bind mounts in case of virtual servers). most single-machine users probably don't care, but there is more out there than just your workstations. so putting portage into /usr is perfectly valid. The only thing that violates the FHS is that "Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy." A location beneath /usr/share probably would have been more compliant. Anyway, since i'll keep my overlays in /usr/local regardless of the outcome this thread has, i don't care :) Bene