From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HBsfM-00051G-5s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:04:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0UD3bT3032687; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:03:37 GMT Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0UCxON9027482 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:59:24 GMT Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD249D2D1 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:59:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:59:24 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: d0l/wvGLvK88BVStVqF/cr9qooS6kzNbR2rd32rFgkjS 1170161963 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id C202C33EF for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:59:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200701292112.22080.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <200701290938.08476.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <1170076843.32291.16.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <200701292112.22080.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:59:22 -0600 Message-Id: <1170161962.27808.10.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 54cc83a6-aceb-4335-87fd-4d1ade2d8c67 X-Archives-Hash: 8ea39b7ea2acd3512e273e175d758ec9 I think you confused my message. When I said "I've always been told..." I didn't mean I was told it was part of the standard, I mean it is common knowledge, common sense, rule-of-thumb, best practice -- whatever. Yes there is FHS but I don't consider it the Bible. most distros break FHS in some way anyhow... I mean let's get a little realistic here. We're talking about temporary files, not /etc/passwd... My main point was not to point out theory (FHS) but practice. Over two years of use shows that it is perfectly fine to run portage in /tmp (with tmp on tmpfs) and, if you take a second to think about it, it does make sense that that would be a viable alternative. You mentioned exceptions like OpenOffice and I suggested a workaround. As always YMMV. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list