[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-20 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:11:39 +0100 as excerpted: Also I wonder if local overlays should be in /var/cache? It might not always be possible to restore them. Good point. My local overlay's in /usr/local/ (which is a dedicated partition I actually keep several backups of,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-19 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:43:56 +0100 as excerpted: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 19/12/2012 13:44, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: I would suggest /var/portage ... Seriously, mine is going to be a huge veto here with as much power I can put. Why? The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-19 Thread George Shapovalov
On Wednesday 19 December 2012 15:52:28 Duncan wrote: There is a _reason_ why stuff is added to /var/lib instead of having /var/postgres /var/mysql /var/foobar /var/wtf /var/wth /var/imtired ... I don't understand how this is related to the discussion. None of the above have any