On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:36 AM Raymond Jennings <shent...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I do think it would be a wise idea to "grandfather" the current layout > > for awhile. > > > > I don't see why we would ever stop supporting it, at least in general. > Maybe if some day somebody had a solution for a read-only /usr with > signature checking that might require portage to be mounted elsewhere, > but I don't ever see that becoming the default. > > Portage just looks for the repository where you tell it to. If you > tell it that the repository is in /var, it will use it. If you put it > in /tmp, that's fine too. > +1 to this. The challenge (in moving it) is that its been "/usr/portage" for a long time so many tools may have hard coded this location; as opposed to querying portage for where the tree is, e.g.: PORTDIR=$(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo) -A > This is just about the default, which should follow FHS. The case of > separate mounts is exactly why /usr is a bad spot - the access > patterns for something like the repository have far more in common > with /var than /usr. > -- > Rich > >
