On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 17:08:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:39:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> > > Check /etc/portage/repos.conf
> >> > 
> >> > That's it! Many thanks, Bruce.
> >> 
> >> Indeed. That directory was either empty or absent on all my systems.
> >> copying repos.conf from /usr/share/portage and modifying the path got
> >> rid of the message.
> > 
> > Shouldn't this file be populated by settings in /etc/portage/make.conf?
> > 
> > I can't recall editing manually and it seems to have bespoke settings
> > that I have in make.conf ...
> 
> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to
> configure it.
> 
> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools
> which parse make.conf directly.


<Scratches head> ... so are we supposed to guess this, wait for a news article 
somewhere, or will it show up in an emerge log somewhere?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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