On 12/08/2015 23:29, James Le Cuirot wrote: > Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes: > >> >> On 10 Aug 2015 09:17, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 02:42:21 Mike Frysinger napisał(a): >>>> On 10 Aug 2015 08:28, Justin (jlec) wrote: >>>>> I like to propose to add the md5-cache into it. Which other >>>>> files are of interest? >>>> >>>> /distfiles/ >>>> /local/ >>>> /packages/ >>> >>> Those directories should not be ignored. Those should not exist for >>> a long time. >> >> there's no reason people can't use these on their own system. >> there's no reason they should be added to the git repo which means, >> if a user opted to utilize them, they should be ignored. > > I agree and I'm not sure what mgorny is basing his statement on anyway. > Apart from /local/, which I forget the purpose of, the default locations > for DISTDIR and PKGDIR still seem to be /usr/portage/distfiles > and /usr/portage/packages. I must admit that I'm struggling to find the > logic for this in Portage but those are the defaults nonetheless. So > why would they not exist? I'm certainly using them here and I would > like to see them in .gitignore. >
/usr/portage/local was the original location for the user's own personal ebuild space - an "overlay" if you will. /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages are there because that's where ports has put them for decades, and no-one has gotten around to changing it in portage yet. FreeBSD defines the use of /usr very differently to what Linux users are used to. Those dirs really should be in /var/portage, and the user's overlay has no business being under main tree itself -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
