On 25/08/2014 01:57, Jc García wrote: > 2014-08-24 17:27 GMT-06:00 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com>: >> Am 24.08.2014 um 21:28 schrieb behrouz khosravi: >>> Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder! >>> And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone! >>> Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other solution? >>> Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am looking for! >>> >>> . >>> >> >> and now you know why you should have added --buildpkg to your default >> emerge options. >> > But without 'PKGDIR' set to any other place not in /usr/, in this case > it's in vain.
15 years ago FreeBSD was putting everything related to ports and package management into /usr. Now this just happened to work out fine for FreeBSD especially with a sane rational mount scheme. Why drobbins elected to carry on with this for Gentoo Linux is a question completely beyond my ken because it is obviously fraught with problems and very little benefit. Portage and binpkgs belong in /var, anyone persisting in putting them in /usr gets to keep all the broken bits when it goes wrong. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
