On 28 March 2012 08:05, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the
> specific objections were.
>
> IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all.
> I was chatting with another developer who uses
> /var/cache/portage/{tree,distfiles}, and I'm thinking about switching my
> default setup to do this.
>
> I realize that historically the portage tree has been installed under
> /usr, but Can we consider changing this default for new installations
> and providing instructions for users for how to get the portage tree out
> of /usr?
> William
>I think I'd rather something closer to paludis's notion, don't assume its "portage", assume its a repository instead. /var/cache/repositories/gentoo/* /var/cache/repositories/perl-experimental/* /var/cache/distfiles/* /var/cache/packages/* Or something along those lines. ( And definitely with the default locations for distfiles and pkg's outside the repository tree instead of inside it ) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
