Bug 305955

Summary:	Directories in /etc/portage should be named with a ".d" suffix for uniqueness
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers>
Component:	Core - Configuration	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fturco, mgorny
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Brouwers 2010-02-19 21:30:26 UTC

It seems like a slightly-more-accepted norm for directories with the same name as a file, is to add a ".d" suffix.  Personally, having portage understand "/etc/portage/package.keywords" as either a file OR a directory is slightly confusing.

It would be nice to transition to something like "/etc/portage/package.keywords.d/" for directories, which is much more obvious to the user that a system uses a directory, instead of a file, for this function.   

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2017-04-07 21:29:25 UTC

Bug #614952 has a little more explanation of the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 614952 ***