On 13/08/2015 00:21, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:11:45 +0200 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12/08/2015 23:29, James Le Cuirot wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes: >>>> >>>> On 10 Aug 2015 09:17, Michał Górny wrote: >>>>> Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 02:42:21 Mike Frysinger napisał(a): >>>>>> On 10 Aug 2015 08:28, Justin (jlec) wrote: >>>>>>> I like to propose to add the md5-cache into it. Which other >>>>>>> files are of interest? >>>>>> >>>>>> /distfiles/ >>>>>> /local/ >>>>>> /packages/ >>>>> >>>>> Those directories should not be ignored. Those should not exist >>>>> for a long time. >>>> >>>> there's no reason people can't use these on their own system. >>>> there's no reason they should be added to the git repo which means, >>>> if a user opted to utilize them, they should be ignored. >>> >>> I agree and I'm not sure what mgorny is basing his statement on >>> anyway. Apart from /local/, which I forget the purpose of, the >>> default locations for DISTDIR and PKGDIR still seem to >>> be /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages. I must admit >>> that I'm struggling to find the logic for this in Portage but those >>> are the defaults nonetheless. So why would they not exist? I'm >>> certainly using them here and I would like to see them >>> in .gitignore. >> >> /usr/portage/local was the original location for the user's own >> personal ebuild space - an "overlay" if you will. >> /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages are there because >> that's where ports has put them for decades, and no-one has gotten >> around to changing it in portage yet. FreeBSD defines the use of /usr >> very differently to what Linux users are used to. >> >> Those dirs really should be in /var/portage, and the user's overlay >> has no business being under main tree itself > > I didn't say they were the most appropriate locations and I agree > that /var/portage is best but that doesn't change the fact that they > are still the defaults. :) >
Indeed. And it's equally true they should be git ignored. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
