040116 Matthew Kennedy wrote:
>  /usr/share  -->  "share"  means exactly that -- 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,

i always understood it to mean shareable among users on the system:
eg fonts & docs, which everyone wants access to.

moving all the Portage stuff  /usr  ->  /var  does seem to make sense
& correspond to FHS rules.

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