On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:15:54 +0100
Fabio Rossi wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> > Fabio Rossi wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
> > >> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could
> > >> technically be used on/for other distributio
Duncan wrote:
> ... But IMO the entire debate is a bunch of bikeshedding, which implies
> it's reasonably safe to assume the status quo is likely to remain.
I agree. The proposal does not seem to offer any real improvement that
would be noticeable either by end users or Gentoo developers. Looks l
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:45 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time
> > ago that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely
> > because the FHS people somehow
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 16:57:12 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Gentoo does not comply with the FHS. It was established a long time ago
> that FHS is considered silly and any compliance is merely because the
> FHS people somehow managed to avoid screwing that particular area up.
Well, we're not
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:53:27 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 15:33:14 Fabio Rossi wrote:
> > Ok, but at the end we have an exception in the tree
> > (/var/lib/gentoo/news/) which is not justified (looking at the
> > current discussion). My proposal has arisen after
On Wednesday 31 of December 2008 15:33:14 Fabio Rossi wrote:
> Ok, but at the end we have an exception in the tree (/var/lib/gentoo/news/)
> which is not justified (looking at the current discussion). My proposal has
> arisen after having seen the /var/lib/gentoo/news/ hierarchy.
Then it seems wa
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Josh Saddler schrieb:
> Mmm, not so much. Documentation like this, that's so specific to one
> particular architecture, would be better off in project documentation --
> that's (partly) why ya'll have project directories in the first place.
> Otherwise
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Fabio Rossi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
> >> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be
> >> used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
> >
> > Yes, this is the theory but I th
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:00:35PM +0100, Fabio Rossi wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> > The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp,
> > /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by
> > Gentoo. In the other direction, if the pack
Jeremy Olexa posted 495b81ab.3040...@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:28:59 -0600:
> Fabio Rossi wrote:
>> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
>>
>>> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically
>>> be used on/for other distributions and plat
El mié, 31-12-2008 a las 15:33 +0100, Fabio Rossi escribió:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> > Well, the impact is about the same wether you want to change one or the
> > other (btw, what about other admin tools on Gentoo, e.g.
> > paludis/pkgcore, by your definition they'd
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Well, the impact is about the same wether you want to change one or the
> other (btw, what about other admin tools on Gentoo, e.g.
> paludis/pkgcore, by your definition they'd also have to go
> into /var/lib/gentoo, right?)
Yes. So you don't th
Fabio Rossi wrote:
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be
used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
Yes, this is the theory but I think they'll be never ported to other
distributions.
sabayon doesn'
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:00:35 +0100
Fabio Rossi wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> > The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp,
> > /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by
> > Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> The same could be said about /var/lib/init.d, /var/lib/dhcp,
> /var/lib/iptables or several other packages that aren't hosted by
> Gentoo. In the other direction, if the packages are eventually used on
> other distributions/systems, should they
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:55:39 +0100
Fabio Rossi wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> > Any reason for that? Aesthetics aren't a very compelling argument
> > IMO, and the FHS also seems to favor the current layout (in my
> > interpretation at least, as we're not really t
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Duncan wrote:
> Except that... in theory, some or all of those apps could technically be
> used on/for other distributions and platforms as well.
Yes, this is the theory but I think they'll be never ported to other
distributions.
> Few/none of the other apps, rega
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> > /var/lib/eselect -- here
> > /var/lib/gentoo/enews
> > /var/lib/herdstat/
> > /var/lib/module-rebuild -- here
> > /var/lib/portage -- here
>
> It looks neater & simpler to understand in the long run,
> provided it doesn't break
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Any reason for that? Aesthetics aren't a very compelling argument IMO,
> and the FHS also seems to favor the current layout (in my
> interpretation at least, as we're not really talking about
> "inter-related applications" in technical terms).
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