On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/10/2013 20:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch >>> installation. >> >> Why? If ever there was a distro for people that didn't want to use >> defaults, Gentoo is it. >> >>> Someone had to decide the defaults - so, what are they? Anyone? >> >> I installed a VM a couple of weeks ago and I'm sure portage was still >> in /usr. It's easy enough to tell, unpack a stage 3 and see where the >> portage directory lives, but the handbook still refers to /usr/portage. >> >> > > Please say it isn't so, otherwise I'm going to look like a right royal > chump. > > Or maybe I just change it all on automatic these days and forget it do > it. But it was definitely discussed on -dev at length. i could be wrong > about the end result <bashful> > Looks like it's still usr/portage here...
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=pym/portage/repository/config.py;h=0d6edf4e3e6dcffb0758caf859a597a8f0996bc0;hb=HEAD#l615 and here http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=cnf/repos.conf;h=8c657daae3259e42e01ea05c689b74293b5224a7;hb=HEAD#l5 I don't see repos.conf in gx86 and I don't see PORTDIR in any gx86-provided make.defaults'es as of yesterday. So I guess it's still usr/portage. I do think I vaguely recall that discussion about /var too though... frankly, /var seems more sensible ... but maybe that's a can of worms I should not be opening in this thread :) -gmt
