Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] install-qa-check.d: Support QA{,_STRICT}_INSTALL_PATHS variables (bug 670902)

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 11/13/2018 01:21 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> 
> What's inherently wrong about nix having a file store under /nix? Is
> this purely about FHS?
> 

It goes against not only the FHS, but against our existing policies and
common sense. There's no reason to expect that path to even be writable.
And nix stores everything there, so if you have / mounted on a smaller
partition with e.g. /home and /var mounted elsewhere, then it's going to
fill the disk up with junk that emerge won't remove for you.

But it's also just absurd how much trouble we go to to wind up right
back where we started:

  * Spend years developing a FHS so that people can get the most out
    of their storage hardware and know where to find stuff on their
    computers.

  * Adopt a bunch of policies in Gentoo for where ebuilds should store
    things.

  * Add QA checks to ensure that packages abide by said policies.

  * Add package-manager-specific variables that sidestep the QA checks.

  * Begin adding exceptions to every package that puts things in the
    wrong place so that people don't see warnings about things being in
    the wrong place...

All to achieve the end result, that nothing is where it's supposed to be
and you can't plan anything.

I think I'm just tired. I'll stop.