On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 05:37:33 +1300 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fair point. I was more seeing a pattern emerging and exploring where > that might lead. > > Though I figure it a useful distinction for convenience sake. > > Consider if you wanted to archive some files to make a subsequent > gentoo installation easier. > > It would be optimal to backup and replicate the nofetch directory for > the subsequent installation, because that's the only directory that > portage would be unable to populate itself from upstream sources. > > so it becomes: > > /distfiles # Gentoo Replicated and Fetchable from upstream > /distfiles-normirror # Fetch from upstream only > /distfiles-nofetch # manual fetching only > > So it was more a practical benefit than a legal one =). > > ( Also if you were tight on space, you'd obliterate distfiles/ first, > distfiles-nomirror/ second, and distfiles-nofetch/ last ) These are good arguments. Just to be clear: Would you favor if the default setup did this separation? I personally also like the idea, but I'd prefer to leave the default at "one distdir for *", and just make it configurable via the proposed variables. Luis
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