> He already did. He was told to ask here. :-)
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX)

Ah, I see. So, gentoo-dev@ is the way to go :]

> I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's
> installed Gentoo from /usr/portage to /var/portage but why not try to
> get new installs set up properly? Then perhaps an explanation on how
> existing installs could be migrated for those wanting to do so?
> 
> It would seem that all that's required is:
> 1) add an explicit PORTDIR=/usr/portage to /etc/make.conf for existing
> installs (unless PORTDIR is already specified, of course);
> 2) change the default.
> 
> Is it really more complicated than that?

I guess sending proposal with patches to gentoo-dev@ would speed things a bit.

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  Sergei

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