On 03/27/12 15:59, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 03/27/2012 03:47 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, William Hubbs >> <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:25:58AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: >>>> On 28 March 2012 08:05, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> >>>> wrote: /var/cache/repositories/gentoo/* >>>> /var/cache/repositories/perl-experimental/* >>>> /var/cache/distfiles/* /var/cache/packages/* >>> >>> These sub directories are all portage related, so it is best to >>> put them under /var/cache/portage. Look in /var/cache on your >>> system; most of the directories in there (at least on my system) >>> are named for the program that uses them. > >> The gentoo-x86 ebuild tree is not necessarily portage related. >> However I think we should paint the bike shed '/srv/tree' > >> -A > > /var/cache/{ebuilds,distfiles,eclasses,profiles} > > Or we can just call it Portage. > > We call it the "Portage tree", just like we call it gentoo-x86 but > that isn't what it only contains, in several places, both in official > docs and unofficial docs, tweets, pins, notes, stickies.... > > /var/cache/portage is my vote. > > Further, Portage is the official package manager. So, it make more > sense to say "Paludis is compatible with the Portage tree" rather than > "Portage is compatible with the Paludis tree." Portage is the > reference implementation. Whether or not there are other managers are > out there is moot. > > - Aaron >
Or we could just use /var/portage.
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