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<div class="section" id="file-system-layout">
<h1>File system layout<a class="headerlink" href="#file-system-layout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="installation-paths">
<span id="index-0"></span><h2>Installation paths<a class="headerlink" href="#installation-paths" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Source</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reference</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/metadata/install-qa-check.d/08gentoo-paths">https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/metadata/install-qa-check.d/08gentoo-paths</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reported</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>via install-qa-check.d</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Gentoo packages may only install into one of the following top-level
directories:</p>
<table class="hlist"><tr><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/bin</p></li>
<li><p>/boot</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/dev</p></li>
<li><p>/etc</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/lib*</p></li>
<li><p>/opt</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/sbin</p></li>
<li><p>/srv</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/usr</p></li>
<li><p>/var</p></li>
</ul>
</td></tr></table>
<p>Furthermore, only the following subdirectories of /usr are permitted:</p>
<table class="hlist"><tr><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/usr/bin</p></li>
<li><p>/usr/include</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/usr/lib*</p></li>
<li><p>/usr/libexec</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/usr/sbin</p></li>
<li><p>/usr/share</p></li>
</ul>
</td><td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>/usr/src</p></li>
<li><p>/usr/<triplet></p></li>
</ul>
</td></tr></table>
<p>Furthermore, within /usr/share/doc hierarchy only a subdirectory named
after full package name and version with revision (PF) is permitted.</p>
<p>In the aforementioned lists, ‘lib*’ indicates lib and its appropriate
suffixed variants for the architecture in question. ‘<triplet>’
indicates either CHOST or CTARGET value, as used by toolchain packages.</p>
<p>Additional exceptions can be granted by the QA team. Currently those
exceptions are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>/gnu for the guix package manager</p></li>
<li><p>/nix for the nix package manager</p></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="support-for-separate-usr">
<span id="index-1"></span><h2>Support for separate /usr<a class="headerlink" href="#support-for-separate-usr" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Source</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reference</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130813-summary.txt">https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130813-summary.txt</a>
<a class="reference external" href="https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130924-summary.txt">https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130924-summary.txt</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reported</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>no</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Developers are not required to support using separate /usr filesystem
without an initramfs.</p>
<p><em>Rationale</em>: upstream software (as of 2013) is already making support
for early boot without /usr mounted difficult, and whenever it is still
works, it is either subtly broken or relying on hacks (udev). In setups
using initramfs, some of the boot and repair functionality can be moved
from rootfs to initramfs.</p>
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<div class="section" id="strict-multilib-layout">
<span id="index-2"></span><h2>Strict multilib layout<a class="headerlink" href="#strict-multilib-layout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Source</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reference</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/install-qa-check.d/80multilib-strict">https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/install-qa-check.d/80multilib-strict</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reported</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>via install-qa-check.d, fatal</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Libraries must be installed into an appropriate /lib* or /usr/lib*
directory corresponding to their ABI. For example, 64-bit libraries
on amd64 must be installed into lib64 and not lib.</p>
<p>Libraries installed as a part of larger software package can be
installed along with it into a subdirectory of lib.</p>
<p><em>Rationale</em>: historically, Gentoo has been symlinking /lib to /lib64
in order to maintain compatibility with old packages hardcoding /lib
path. With modern Gentoo profiles, this is no longer the case
and packages must install libraries into appropriate directory for them
to be correctly found by the dynamic loader.</p>
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<div class="section" id="static-libraries-and-libtool-files">
<span id="index-3"></span><h2>Static libraries and libtool files<a class="headerlink" href="#static-libraries-and-libtool-files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Source</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reference</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/install-qa-check.d/80libraries">https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/install-qa-check.d/80libraries</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reported</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>via install-qa-check.d, fatal</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Static libraries and libtool files (.la) must be installed into /usr
hierarchy and never to root filesystem (/lib*). If an additional shared
version of the library is installed to /lib*, a .so linker script must
be installed into /usr/lib* in order to ensure correct linking.</p>
<p><em>Rationale</em>: historically, the purpose of root filesystem was to hold
files strictly needed at boot. For this reason, many old Gentoo
installations may still use small / partition. Static libraries are
used only during package builds, and installing them to rootfs would
be a waste of space.</p>
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<div class="section" id="game-install-locations-and-ownership">
<span id="index-4"></span><h2>Game install locations and ownership<a class="headerlink" href="#game-install-locations-and-ownership" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Source</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>Council, clarified by QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reference</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt">https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt</a>
<a class="reference external" href="https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt">https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reported</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>via install-qa-check.d</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>The historical game install locations (/usr/games and /etc/games) must
not be used anymore. Instead, games should follow normal guidelines
for install locations. As an exception, /usr/share/games can be used
if this location is used upstream, and /var/games can be used for shared
game files (e.g. high scores, game state files).</p>
<p>The historical games group must no longer be used. Games must work
for users that are not in this group. The aforementioned install
locations must therefore be owned by root and be world-readable.</p>
<p>If games need privileged access to shared files, the group gamestat
can be used for this purpose. The game executables should be owned
by that group and made setgid. The shared files must be installed
into /var/games hierarchy, and writable to gamestat group.</p>
<p><em>Rationale</em>: there is no technical reason to isolate games from other
applications on the system, or to restrict access to them. The boundary
between game and non-game packages is very blurry on modern systems,
especially due to web browsers.</p>
<p>The historical use of games group on Gentoo to control access is
inconsistent with the use in other distributions where it was used to
share data files. Since the latter implied users must not be added
to the games group, a new group (gamestat) needed to be created to
fulfill that purpose.</p>
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