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
next prev parent 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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