On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Fabio Rossi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
> >> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be
> >> used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
> >
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Well, the impact is about the same wether you want to change one or the
> other (btw, what about other admin tools on Gentoo, e.g.
> paludis/pkgcore, by your definition they'd also have to go
> into /var/lib/gentoo, right?)
Yes. So you don't th
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp,
> /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by
> Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages are eventually used on
> other distributions/systems, should they
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be
> used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
Yes, this is the theory but I think they'll be never ported to other
distributions.
> Few/none of the other apps, rega
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> > /var/lib/eselect -- here
> > /var/lib/gentoo/enews
> > /var/lib/herdstat/
> > /var/lib/module-rebuild -- here
> > /var/lib/portage -- here
>
> It looks neater & simpler to understand in the long run,
> provided it doesn't break
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Any reason for that? Aesthetics aren't a very compelling argument IMO,
> and the FHS also seems to favor the current layout (in my
> interpretation at least, as we're not really talking about
> "inter-related applications" in technical terms).
I'm proposing to reorganize the files related to Gentoo inside /var/lib.
Currently we have this situation (at least on my system):
/var/lib/eselect
/var/lib/gentoo/enews
/var/lib/herdstat/
/var/lib/module-rebuild
/var/lib/portage
The main dir should be something like /var/lib/gentoo, so I'd see a
