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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:45:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003031845.11717.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30b96cd61003030843s2cf116fie04669d317d8d49c@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:43:55 stosss wrote:
> I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion.
> 
> So why does stage three put portage in
> 
> /usr


I'm not sure this will mean much to you, but the REAL reasons are that

1. It is a historical artifact that no-one thus far saw fit to change,
2. FreeBSD does it that way.


Yes, #2 is for real. Read the ancient histories of where Gentoo originally 
came from as written by drobbins to find out why



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01 18:08 [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation" 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-03-01 18:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-01 19:07   ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-03-01 23:09     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-02 16:56       ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-03-02 18:07         ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-01 20:19   ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-01 21:05     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 18:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2010-03-01 19:02   ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-03-01 20:10     ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-01 19:14   ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2010-03-02 15:51   ` Peter Humphrey
2010-03-03 11:10     ` Stroller
2010-03-03 12:21       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-03 12:49         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 16:33           ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-03 16:42             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 16:43             ` stosss
2010-03-03 16:45               ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-03-03 17:03             ` Stroller

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