Lint files by gentoo packages

[Roman_Gruber]

How comes gentoo packges do not cleanup this folder

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roman@Wheat_Nas /var/cache $ ls -alh
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 Jan 27 12:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  96 Jan 27 00:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 man  man   40 Jan 27 12:21 man
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  60 Jan 27 12:21 rc
drwx------ 2 root root  40 Jan 27 12:21 revdep-rebuild

52Mib are 52Mib that is much more as my boot files and half the size for my usb pendrive which i still use for my uefi firmware updates and backups!



How comes empty folders are created with genkernel initfamfs + openrc

man and revdep rebuild should not be created.

This folder should be delted by the system itself, contains 52 mib lint which i backuped for quite a while.

/var/db/repos in my point of view a bad spot. I realised a few hours ago, I made a mistake migrating to /var/db and not leaving it in /usr/portage

I put it wiht a bind mount on another drive those repositories.

After 20 years of gentoo I am back in reading FHS and determining what is lint and was is not. For a few weeks i added a lot of /var subfolders to tmpfs because they are lint.

The driving force is to reduce my backups as 92Gib of data have to come somewhere when i had for ages only 50Gib for everything. There is lots of lint these days which never gets deleted and pulled since the SYSTEMD days. The main issue is, coders not able to read FHS and not using /var/tmp as it should be!

[sam_]

Well, Gentoo doesn't follow FHS and never has. We've always taken inspiration from it though. Other distros are generally doing the same. FHS is also dead though there's some talk of reviving it.

I'm not sure what the issue with man and revdep-rebuild here is, but they're under /var/cache? I think tmpfiles manages them?

[flexibeast]

I'm not sure what the issue with man and revdep-rebuild here is, but they're under /var/cache? I think tmpfiles manages them?

There's certainly an entry for /var/cache in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:

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d /var/cache 0755 - - -