On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:40 PM Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > > > is there a tracker for when the portage tree can be moved out of > > /usr/portage by default? > > > If not, what is the status of us being able to do this? > > Please remind me, what was the plan for the new location? > Somewhere under /var/db or /var/lib, IIRC? >
I'd also consider /var/cache here as well. FHS specifically suggests using it for web caches and the like (let's set aside the issue with making that global), though for the most part it is more metadata caching. A key principle is that it can be wiped without loss of data, and I think that is generally true for the repository since it can be synced. Stuff in /var/lib can't be deleted without some kind of loss of application state. /var/db isn't in FHS, and I note that even mysql sticks its stuff in /var/lib. -- Rich
