>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote:
> July 27, 2018 4:07 PM, "William Hubbs" <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Section 5.5.2 describes the directory structure of /var/cache. >> These paths are all optional [1]. >> >> /var/cache/fonts >> /var/cache/man >> /var/cache/www >> /var/cache/<package> >> >> Gentoo isn't a package, so I don't think /var/cache/gentoo/* is >> appropriate. Here is my proposal: >> >> /usr/portage -> /var/db/repos/gentoo >> /usr/portage/distfiles -> /var/cache/portage/distfiles >> /usr/portage/packages -> /var/cache/portage/binpkgs >> >> I'm not 100% comfortable with /var/db, but I don't have any better >> suggestion either. >> >> [1] >> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varcacheApplicationCacheData > From the same source > "No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache > directories." > And as you have quoted it, everything under /var/cache is optional. > So anything which doesn't conflict with another package seems fine > according to FHS. That's how I would read it, too. We could of course invent a package name (like "package-manager" for virtual/package-manager) but it seems cumbersome, and I don't see any benefit of it. There also is /var/cache/fonts, so the FHS itself lists an example of a directory that's not named after a specific package. Ulrich
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