From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 06:31:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85E816A41F for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36BE13C44C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1838077waf for ; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:31:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Zrpw3ZT904qJVkQJpzhupYw6kN3Bq5uFVAPP96QVHNd7+3xl98gtSZI0T0FqX455mdjVhUmdtdspQosUm3838nsR0thLH8mT64hIQE1QWkawi8YqpAEqYfVecZ/Re+J000HYz9B3UDZFSHNjEfY71ocTASIDYiMVp8IjAt12qMg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=D8SL8/LDRl6plzk37cKYPe2hNII4rLMxLgZroAw99CmjGpnbai8J2Dkbh1rDP+vaqJKX9mivXRNchhKra75Q8CHfvhIWwSuB3ih3OjpVSkPVLm6SV7vmWAN1w6R/laNEzl6AStKd8/cecSSwdazYJYvTY/vT2Q++fiVi6xyGC2g= Received: by 10.114.152.17 with SMTP id z17mr4194808wad.1181455442510; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.194.13 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:04:02 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Andrew Lankford" In-Reply-To: <466B78E6.5060201@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <466B78E6.5060201@charter.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 617e01aeb39942db Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:31:38 -0000 On 6/10/07, Andrew Lankford 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)