Eivind Tagseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-15 13:29:45 -0600]: > >> Meder Bakirov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> For /usr/portage/distfiles, I'm not sure. Since it is essentially >> architecture independent, I believe the following is appropriate: >> >> /usr/portage/distfiles -> /usr/share/portage/distfiles >> >> I think the above is in-line with the Linux FHS. > > I'd like to see distfiles somewhere under /var. I don't know if it's > just me, but I don't like distfiles/ to be continually growing with
[...] IIRC, thats not very standard -- but what do we care. /usr/share --> "share" means exactly that -- sharable! It is sharable because it is only supposed to contain architecture independent stuff. You should be able to share /usr/share via NFS etc. to other machines, and I can see that distfiles is a prime candidate for that. Debian do a stellar job of keeping to this policy. Having said that, you could make an argument for /var/portage/distfiles etc. based on the fact that in a heterogeneous environment, distfiles will contain a /few/ architecture-dependent sources. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
