On 16/12/2020 14:58, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 7:46 AM gevisz <gev...@gmail.com
<mailto:gev...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Nevertheless, the explanation why /var/db/repos/gentoo is better than
> /usr/portage is still welcomed. :)
Community opinion mostly:
https://serverfault.com/questions/384342/what-are-the-best-practices-of-the-usr-var-and-etc-folders#384345
<https://serverfault.com/questions/384342/what-are-the-best-practices-of-the-usr-var-and-etc-folders#384345>
In this case portage is a 'database'?
Depends what you mean by "portage". Depends what you mean by "database".
Here we are storing the data (source files) used to build a gentoo
system. So while it may be a bit tenuous (I find Rich's argument for
"cache" more compelling), I don't think the argument for calling this a
database that strange - portage the system uses portage the data to
build the system called gentoo ...
Cheers,
Wol
