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 1Nmrjv-0002VG-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:48:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CC2CE0B70; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46BCE0B70 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1235952ewy.26 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:47:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=7l2O8/Og+pEqNilOzk3ZBz59fN9r74UBkiTKIBrHZP8=; b=sI/iSNH8Tsuo6+uZxqJgupDsLF7S1uU9aaKKtElK6HxGRBgNj1aX1jQ07rtlEt6HCm pKS306AEsfWwdwDwAhc+JHPQhhd7lHtC6wKjMerkUA17u5u1ITmLFraLm6hliDOOlAOl FFUSK6UlQz08EFft+j6J1+kN6bLXbPaS9AkSc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jw1FhvSHIv+WHofPttN7c+V+SBvcUSZm2VDS3AXvKoJH/boQ/osQR9YwsQIGWp6TXn 3McZqNr+eEioTmBxFaCE4PnlM2GYtSGvXWLBOu9eG67ih/GaUQXzlSF4rPPdHah8hv7l FqG2p0dBpOdjYqK48aibinedxBNGtPxdzDTlY= Received: by 10.213.100.151 with SMTP id y23mr5992966ebn.78.1267634868548; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-238-8.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.238.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm14659282eya.2.2010.03.03.08.47.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation" Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:45:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B8C028E.7010602@gmail.com> <201003031733.54131.wonko@wonkology.org> <30b96cd61003030843s2cf116fie04669d317d8d49c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30b96cd61003030843s2cf116fie04669d317d8d49c@mail.gmail.com> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003031845.11717.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 38d7bafb-0c38-4e75-92b8-86fe9a16f561 X-Archives-Hash: 4377360a9e19132dbc6ec27acda5e4e3 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