Re: Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy
- From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:04:02 +0400
On 6/10/07, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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