Fabio Rossi wrote:
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
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote:
Fabio Rossi wrote:
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/
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 17:28:09 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:45 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time
ago that
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:55:13 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
That being said I'd rather propose to force Gentoo news to comply to
FHS as FHS is the most commonly used file/directory layout in Gentoo.
No, FHS is not the most commonly used layout. The traditional Unix
layout is
Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 17:28:09 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
You could use the same argument to say Gentoo must switch to RPM
because LSB says so.
No, I would be invalid argumentation - I know it - you know it, so let's not
continue with discussion of this kind
On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:03:55 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
No, FHS is not the most commonly used layout. The traditional Unix
layout is the most commonly used layout.
So.. why not blindly use Unix layout everywhere instead (for Gentoo news as
well)
On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:37:28
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:07:08 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
On Thursday 01 of January 2009 22:03:55 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
No, FHS is not the most commonly used layout. The traditional Unix
layout is the most commonly used layout.
So.. why not blindly use Unix layout
On Thursday 01 of January 2009 23:15:20 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:07:08 +0100
So.. why not blindly use Unix layout everywhere instead (for Gentoo
news as well)
We do.
/var/lib/gentoo/news
Seriously, find something useful to change. I realise it's hard around
here to
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:28:52 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
On Thursday 01 of January 2009 23:15:20 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:07:08 +0100
So.. why not blindly use Unix layout everywhere instead (for
Gentoo news as well)
We do.
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
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 anyone's
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:55:39 +0100
Fabio Rossi ross...@inwind.it wrote:
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
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 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:00:35 +0100
Fabio Rossi ross...@inwind.it wrote:
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
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 think
El mié, 31-12-2008 a las 15:33 +0100, Fabio Rossi escribió:
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
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:00:35PM +0100, Fabio Rossi wrote:
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
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 15:33:14 Fabio Rossi wrote:
Ok, but at the end we have an exception in the tree (/var/lib/gentoo/news/)
which is not justified (looking at the current discussion). My proposal has
arisen after having seen the /var/lib/gentoo/news/ hierarchy.
Then it seems way
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:53:27 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 15:33:14 Fabio Rossi wrote:
Ok, but at the end we have an exception in the tree
(/var/lib/gentoo/news/) which is not justified (looking at the
current discussion). My proposal has
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time ago
that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely because the
FHS people somehow managed to avoid screwing that particular area up.
Well, we're not
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:45 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote:
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time
ago that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely
because the FHS
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:12:23 +0100
Fabio Rossi ross...@inwind.it wrote:
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
Hi, this possible reorganization will impact how many packages and which one ?
Thanks :P
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:31:12 +0100
From: gen...@gentoo.org
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:12:23
081231 Fabio Rossi wrote:
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 -- here
/var/lib/gentoo/enews
/var/lib/herdstat/
/var/lib/module-rebuild -- here
/var/lib/portage --
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