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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405E3C09-FE03-4A87-9DC2-001303844C33@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003021551.30252.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>


On 2 Mar 2010, at 15:51, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> ... I'm happy with the new default arrangement: mainstream
> packages under /usr/portage; layman overlays under /var/lib/layman;  
> and
> my own variations under /usr/local/portage. Nice clean boundaries.

Not that I really care, but I find this layout somewhat illogical.

It makes perfect sense to me that /usr/local/portage should be the  
local version of /usr/portage

But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different  
general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of  
my head, but putting something in "/var" ought to indicate that it is  
somewhat different in nature &/or purpose to something in "/usr". The  
main Portage tree & a layman overlay are not so fundamentally  
different, IMO.

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 11:10 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 [this message]
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
2010-03-03 17:03             ` Stroller

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