On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:49:37 -0700 Raymond Jennings <shent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case, I vote for /var/cache/portage, since that's literally > what purpose it serves. Namely, the cache of the gentoo infra's > current copy of teh portage tree. > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Raymond Jennings > > <shent...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Just for the record, but would putting a setting inside > >> /etc/portage/make.conf be the appropriate way to handle this? > >> > > > > The settings already exist (and have existed for 10 years.) This > > bikeshed discussion is literally trying to decide what the default > > should be. > > > > -A > > > This is not a personal attack against you. Just picked this one to say something again... PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling it the "portage" tree. The repo name is "gentoo". "portage is the default package manager, but not the only choice. Far too often, it takes awhile to figure out what someone is trying to say because of that confusion between the tree and the package manager. PLUS, it has been decided already long ago that the directory name should reflect the repository name. We have been enforcing that rule for overlays for a long time. It has just been taking a long time to get our tooling in order so that we can change our own to follow that rule. So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
