Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:04:02 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrew Lankford" <lankfordandrew@charter.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy Message-ID: <cb5206420706092304u197e8b5dtd649c8ce54791510@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <466B78E6.5060201@charter.net> References: <466B78E6.5060201@charter.net>
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On 6/10/07, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> wrote: > Just wondering, but what are the reasons for putting port building > options and package system meta data in the /var slice? Maybe I'm just > not the sort of FreeBSD user who would see a need to reserve a gigabyte > or more for the /var partition, but /var/db/pkg keeps getting larger > over successive upgrades even though the rest of /var really doesn't > (assuming that programs don't dump all sorts of unclaimed rubbish in > /var/tmp). Why not place ports/package info in the same part of the > tree where package files typically go, /usr/local? csup/cvsup, portsnap, freebsd-update, mysql, e-mail, logs, ..., ..., ... all use it because they've all traditionally used it for ages and it's written down in hier(8)
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