>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:31:15 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> >>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote:
>>
>> > From the same source
>> > "No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache
>> > directories."
>> > And as you have quoted it, everything under /var/cache is
>> > optional.
>>
>> > So anything which doesn't conflict with another package seems
>> > fine according to FHS.
>>
>> That's how I would read it, too. We could of course invent a
>> package name (like "package-manager" for virtual/package-manager)
>> but it seems cumbersome, and I don't see any benefit of it.
>>
>> There also is /var/cache/fonts, so the FHS itself lists an example
>> of a directory that's not named after a specific package.
> /var/db/repos/gentoo
> /var/cache/distfiles
> /var/cache/binpkgs
For the record, these three paths have been approved in today's
Council meeting.
> Works for me, just please keep "portage" out of it, after all
> distfiles are not restricted to portage use only, and neither are
> binpkgs. There is alternate binpkg installers.
By another Council vote, snapshot names should be changed from
portage-YYYYMMDD.tar.{bz2,xz} to gentoo-YYYYMMDD.tar.{bz2,xz}.
So, no "portage" any more. ;)
Ulrich
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