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
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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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