On Sunday 28 November 2010 15:28:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:07 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick did > > opine thusly: > > > This doesn't look right. layman has never installed overlays in that > > > location for me. > > > > Hmm ... it does for me! o_O > > > > $ ls -la /var/lib/layman/enlightenment/ > > total 16 > > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 25 Nov 27 10:33 . > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8 Nov 27 10:33 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-admin > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-misc > > Well now, that's just fscking brain dead. Putting data files into areas of > the file system where executables were there first. Tut, tut, tsk, tsk. > > Now that I think about it, I recall layman doing something like this the > first time I used it. It drives me batty, along with portage putting the > tree in /usr/portage so now layman.cfg has this on all my machines > > storage : /var/portage/local/layman > > and I *always* change $PORTDIR to be /var/portage > > > I'd forgotten *why* I always do this. Thanks for the reminder.
The plot thickens ... I seem to have set up: PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage and fair enough layman is in there: $ ls -la /usr/local/portage/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jun 10 16:38 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 13 Jun 8 22:16 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jun 10 16:38 layman but it's empty, except for a make.conf file: $ cat /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" I am guessing that updating/reinstalling layman shifted storage around to its default: storage : /var/lib/layman and the make.conf file in there says: $ cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" /var/lib/layman/enlightenment $PORTDIR_OVERLAY " I recall that after some version the default layman overlays location changed and there was a post in this list too (but forget when). Perhaps if you post a bug for a more sane storage location, then the layman devs will make a more considered decision on this. -- Regards, Mick
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