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 1NWDCv-0000qe-7o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:17:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3171E0775; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF85E0775 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (f052101093.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.52.101.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F9B67BC8 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B52026B.6020706@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:16:11 +0100 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100103 Thunderbird/3.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again) References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> <201001152046.00963.vapier@gentoo.org> <4B511C86.6020002@gentoo.org> <201001152339.22105.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201001152339.22105.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6fe0b322-0743-43d0-9852-81faab3c1074 X-Archives-Hash: f8267276b405e7d3ea993aeb0776bbd2 On 01/16/10 05:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 15 January 2010 20:55:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> On 01/16/10 02:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> the better idea >>> though would be to split your stuff along the proper lines. >>> >>> cache files = /var/cache/layman/ >> >> as i said: it's not a "normal" cache. > > you said but didnt explain why it's "special". these are merely caches of > external overlays and xml caches of overlay lists. to me cache is something that speeds up operation but does not hold content of real value. with layman overlay "checkouts" that's a bit different. let's say a host overlay is taken offline: now the layman copy is my only source. Page [1] describes /var/cache as "Long term data which can be regenerated". so to me it's not a cache because there might be data in there that we cannot regenerate. sebastian [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html