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 1NWfeI-0006bP-LA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:39:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36811E0A72; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E930E0A72 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (f052102092.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.52.102.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F30C1B4019 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B53AD84.7020100@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:38:28 +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> <82dd739f1001170101i633f2c35n5b330e3be4bdd9dd@mail.gmail.com> <201001172131.28997.bangert@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201001172131.28997.bangert@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8fb91055-3719-4004-bf39-e0b4aa79e85e X-Archives-Hash: 771848d59a455dc7be4c3f0830f17326 On 01/17/10 21:31, Thilo Bangert wrote: > /var/layman i dislike due to this sentence in the FHS: > > "Applications must generally not add directories to the top level of > /var. Such directories should only be added if they have some system-wide > implication[...]" 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? 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 sebastian