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 think that a /var/lib/<distribution_name> directory makes sense for collecting all admin files *strictly* related to the distribution, do you? If portage/paludis/pkgcore were used in other distributions I'd not consider their files related to the admin purposes of one specific distrib, at that point their files could be directly put inside /var/lib. > and that impact is non-trivial (it's not so much the code changes themselves > but the inevitable transition problems). This might be the real issue, the transition problems generated by the move. > Compared to the IMO very questionable benefit of a "cleaner" > filesystem (by hiding files users usually don't see anyway one level > deeper in the tree structure) that more or less goes against the FHS, > that doesn't sound like a good deal to me. 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. Regards, Fabio
