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> > > > >-- >Alan McKinnon >alan.mckin...@gmail.com
You always grab the latest stage3? I generally make a copy of an exiating up-to-date system and use that. That works best as they all use NFS and set of links for portage. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
