moving dir's in /

tlg · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

I need for some of my applications a /dir directory. The problem is that sometimes when I emerge -u world, it moves /dir to /dir.old.

Is there a way to avoid this behaviour ? I can't really find out wich packages does it (it seems that baselayout is, but it is'nt the only one)

choward · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 92

tlg · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

I know it is realy broken , but it is needed ... actually it is a directory that we use on all os we have (OSX, linux, BSD, ...). That way we have a common tree for all our apps and os ...

doug-x07 · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:46 pm Post subject:

The easiest solution might be to create your own application directory say /opt/applications and then link /dir to it. That way if anything gets updated by an emerge -u world you just have to change the symlink if it gets borked by base layout. Would give you the advantage of a common application tree structure on each platform whilst also respecting the file system standards of each individual platform. All at the cost of one command after running an emerge -u world.
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