On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 3:47 AM, Brian Dolbec <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:49:37 -0700 > Raymond Jennings <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In that case, I vote for /var/cache/portage, since that's literally >> what purpose it serves. Namely, the cache of the gentoo infra's >> current copy of teh portage tree. >> >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM Alec Warner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Raymond Jennings >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Just for the record, but would putting a setting inside >> >> /etc/portage/make.conf be the appropriate way to handle this? >> >> >> > >> > The settings already exist (and have existed for 10 years.) This >> > bikeshed discussion is literally trying to decide what the default >> > should be. >> > >> > -A >> > >> > > This is not a personal attack against you. Just picked this one to say > something again... > > > PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling it the "portage" tree. The repo name is > "gentoo". "portage is the default package manager, but not the only > choice. Far too often, it takes awhile to figure out what someone is > trying to say because of that confusion between the tree and the > package manager. > > PLUS, it has been decided already long ago that the directory name > should reflect the repository name. We have been enforcing that rule > for overlays for a long time. It has just been taking a long time to > get our tooling in order so that we can change our own to follow that > rule. > > So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path. > > -- > Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
I don't mind calling ::gentoo as Gentoo's official ebuild repository, but it also has been "a portage tree", and "the portage tree" by default context. If you imply that people should change convention to something more PMS friendly, be explicit, and perhaps make it official, and the let them decide for themselves. Be fair at reminding that it has been there, but it's better be changed for PMS's sake. Don't make it look like the usage has always been wrong. -- konsolebox
