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 1NmnaT-00021E-NK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:22:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 714B9E0E0C; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358B0E0E0C for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 586496DC69C for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:21:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:21:23 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation" Message-ID: <20100303122123.05195534@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <405E3C09-FE03-4A87-9DC2-001303844C33@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <4B8C028E.7010602@gmail.com> <4B8C07C0.8070706@libertytrek.org> <201003021551.30252.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <405E3C09-FE03-4A87-9DC2-001303844C33@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs31 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Z/0Rx=lpnLjnRVhxjhx.NGQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 33f1b544-2dc5-4a0e-bc12-abb9e793d9a3 X-Archives-Hash: cd67292b73a3cd3e37b2c2aef0b0637a --Sig_/Z/0Rx=lpnLjnRVhxjhx.NGQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:21 +0000, Stroller wrote: > But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different =20 > general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of =20 > my head, but putting something in "/var" ought to indicate that it is =20 > somewhat different in nature &/or purpose to something in "/usr". The =20 > main Portage tree & a layman overlay are not so fundamentally =20 > different, IMO. That's right, they should both be in /var. --=20 Neil Bothwick There's too much blood in my caffeine system. --Sig_/Z/0Rx=lpnLjnRVhxjhx.NGQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuOVEcACgkQum4al0N1GQPYPwCcD2AHJMT37vLRY33siFPY8Ddu rNoAoLq/5/ghDYjpZXeAkgkVmnGBSF3T =I6GO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Z/0Rx=lpnLjnRVhxjhx.NGQ--