-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/24/2012 04:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > >> I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem >> Hierarchy Standard: > >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY > > Wrong standard to choose from. ;-) /var/db/ is already required by the > PMS for /var/db/pkg/. > >> I would prefer something that blends with FHS. > > Is this important for a Gentoo specific directory? > > /var/db/portage/ PORTDIR > /var/db/layman/ layman storage > /var/db/pkg/ VDB (no change) > /usr/local/portage/ local overlays (no change) > /var/cache/distfiles/ DISTDIR > /var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR > > Alternatively, the last two could be under > /var/cache/portage/{distfiles,packages}/. > I am not 100% on this, but I think this is my first +1 for this thread.
+1 I really like this layout, it almost makes sense. I won't be bike shedding on this topic (really don't care that much), but I do really like this layout. - -ZC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQ2H3/AAoJEKXdFCfdEflKJMwQALbugkzciQpw3KTr32Dwl2p2 TFMRClKv4W006SXjbxLciQg+hLDMPBOIjbCl5UtpWcFSsCWWUXGBJIX7A6m7TZ6N lj4VGjEDBjCKzkp3XypoRXL1XIiuqQpxv3FAqpFbhLczXRP+oQoP3ZmdbDZF4Dky oJf/Pttl4bD8CA6cWZ6tXDvnrZ2w4cJYm/AnuOaCahSM/3MqscWq884lnucbT6Xs IBa6DhNV/iqAXTQ5v/54p6izl6EbV/UJEzFjSVOsPAgmCwVjsc1ZFkZi2BAlt8iv f+8j0SGHRrUXk22nOIe1bwdg7CTpn0cjrYPTjG+sWcx+tEgNzF7xkLLWgeSj4+jL kY7KXvfsmVyamAybySGJNWIjv8n97YkJTy8bT7caIoCB8h0oJvrC2eNRJFISuEjv DpKvql1nNyJJ1/k2aUoBLiUjLpSIGeZ0607W4woTM0mrEo8RGvXGV87y8Y4jGML1 2ks87XcEb/jBPVxCodITwWyB9/aqzC4K0K5rLj5xqIDdeoxb2A8HVefbUEY2mcD/ cFXTl7hnX9KdNl4+VrNSVvNNVR+pZIZz8lT8wiu4wqVwm+CjaY+YPMuGy3ps2cmo Pq3/HbSSQwhP6bEZfZ5md8dZ2p2LSW9xJzhbxmuFCUrLxDAbZTsjDKeJy0q3aHNG Xi+Z+m8PqCDotRD63PWR =lGRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
