W dniu pią, 27.07.2018 o godzinie 08∶06 -0700, użytkownik Brian Dolbec napisał: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:31:15 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > /var/db/repos/gentoo > /var/cache/distfiles > /var/cache/binpkgs > > Works for me, just please keep "portage" out of it, after all distfiles > are not restricted to portage use only, and neither are binpkgs. There > is alternate binpkg installers.
Well, technically speaking this specific binary package format is Portage-specific. But I don't think we need to go into that kind of nuances. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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