>>>>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 > Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
>> I would say let's work on that so that portage can keep them there. >> Although I'm more for /var/cache/portage myself, as both distfiles and >> tree can be re-generated. > +1 on /var/cache. If we change the location, can we then move distfiles to some place outside of the tree? Something like: /var/cache/portage /var/cache/distfiles Rationale for this is that the tree with many small files and distfiles (which tend to be large) have very different parameters for filesystem optimisation, when one of them (or both) are kept on a separate partition. Ulrich
