> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:34 PM Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> On my system, /usr/portage is a separate mountpoint. There is no need to >> have on,h top level directories be separate mountpoints. > > It makes sense to follow FHS. Sure, I can work around poor designs by > sticking mount points all over the place, or manually setting my > config to put stuff in sane locations. It makes more sense to put all > the volatile stuff in /var, than to mix it up all over the place and > get users to set up separate mountpoints to make up for it.
Is it a violation of the FHS? /usr is for readonly data and the portage tree is generally readonly, except when being updated. The same is true of everything else in /usr. I am confused as to how we only now realized it was a FHS violation when it has been there for ~15 years. I was under the impression that /usr was the correct place for it. > > If somebody is doing a new Gentoo install, why would they want to put > the repository in /usr, and nest a few GB of distfiles inside of the > repo? Why should that be the place we direct them? There is no > history for them. A brand new install should put things in the most > logical place. > > By all means let existing users decide whether to move stuff. I'm > sure we have plenty of users with make.conf in /etc/. > > -- > Rich >
