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 17:03:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90F6935E-27E6-4104-80E2-10AD12C67088@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003031733.54131.wonko@wonkology.org>
On 3 Mar 2010, at 16:33, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>>> That's right, they should both be in /var.
>>
>> I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted
>> read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS).
>
> Any idea why it's different with Gentoo in the first place? /usr also
> always sounded wrong to me for the portage tree.
It probably just goes back to a snap descision by Daniel Robbins a
decade (or nearly) ago.
At one time he wasn't intending to distribute in the same way -
Portage evolved from a script that he wrote to help him build a binary
distro he was planning, so perhaps /usr/portage wasn't intended to be
installed on users' systems (only on his own machine).
Stroller.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-03 17:04 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
2010-03-03 17:03 ` Stroller [this message]
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