Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

[Kai Peter <kp@lists.openqmail.org>]

On 2017-12-06 16:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> And just to round off a mostly pointless discussion with little real
> merit, the really stupid thing about portage is why oh why are ports 
> and
> distfiles in /usr?
I'm really surprised that someone recognized this or may be does 
question this. Fortunately it is easy to change for the user on a per 
installation base, but not for the upstream because of the things which 
follows.
> 
> I'll tell you why, it's because that's where FreeBSD puts them, and
> drobbins built Gentoo back in the day heavily borrowing from his
> pleasant FreeBSD experience (he went there for 6 months recovering from
> his departure from another distro, the one with the "toxic
> personality"). And no-one ever bothered changing that initial decision 
> -
> a classic case of cargo cult
That you not aware of it doesn't indicate that it wasn't bothered. 
Perhaps people will not waste (any more) time with senseless discussions 
...

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