On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 March 2012 08:21, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> 'Support' is the keyword here. The repositories are regenerated given >> machinesan 'emerge --sync' and can be considered as temporary as the >> packages themselves are impermanent. Further, the repository isn't >> required to persist. If somebody really wanted to be hard on our >> infrastructure, they could do an 'emerge --sync' at boot to repopulate >> /var/cache/gentoo-repos/. >> > > Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ > which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* unpopular. > > As will I be if I have /usr/portage/distfiles under /usr/portage/ and you > nuke /usr/portage including distfiles. > > I could download distfiles again, but sorry, bandwidth is not free in every > country, and neither is the time wasted by redownloading it all.
Zac's migration plan doesn't involve moving data at all, merely changing the default for new installs. I think this is a pretty simple migration plan provided you are ok with it taking a decade. It will be hard on doc writers who instead of getting to write /usr/portage everywhere will likely have to write $PORTDIR or $(portageq env PORTDIR) instead. -A > > > -- > Kent > > perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) > for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" > > http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
