On 30/04/12 08:57, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Since lately Gentoo devs force you to replace collision-protect with > protect-owned [1] and sometimes packages just spit out files randomly > on the filesystem due to random errors, I thought it may be a good idea > to provide a new feature limiting the locations where packages can > install.
You're not forced to do anything. > In order to do that, we should first compose a complete include/exclude > list where packages can install. I'd suggest the following: > > + /bin > + /boot (but maybe just subdirectories so packages can't overwrite > kernels?) > [potentially + /dev? but that's useful only when tmpfs isn't mounted] > + /etc > + /lib, /lib32, /lib64 > + /opt > + /sbin > [potentially + /service for ugly daemontools] > + /usr > + /var > - /usr/local > - /usr/portage > > What are your thoughts on this? > > [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410691#c4 I think it's feature creep - you can just set INSTALL_MASK="/usr/local /usr/portage", no need for new features. PS. I (and few other folks) don't have /usr/portage. -- Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xF6A80E46 desktop-misc, java, vim, kernel, python, apache...
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