On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 PM William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > That is the other part of this debate, some are saying /var/lib, and > others are saying /var/db. > > It turns out that /var/db is much more common than I thought it was > (it exists in all *bsd variants at least), so that could be an argument > for putting the repos in there. >
FreeBSD does not put the package repository in /var/db. Portage cloned many of the file paths from FreeBSD along with the name/concept. FreeBSD puts their package repository in /usr/ports, so I'm not sure I'd hold them out as a great example of FHS. -- Rich
