Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> If we are going to move distfiles out of the tree into, what are the >> odds of getting /some/path/portage/local to move somewhere else too? > > What program uses this "local" directory? It's not used directly by > portage itself, though portage has an exclude for it in the default > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS setting (in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals).
It is useful for 'site' local ebuilds. It allows a 'master' repository to sync with the main Gentoo one without disturbing local changes but allow other systems on-site to fetch the modified tree with a simple 'emerge --sync'.
