On Thu, 10 May 2007 01:01:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

> > I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync
> > enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying.  
> 
> Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting
> to /usr/portage is stupid. The logical location for the tree would be
> on /var ... :)

Except that running emerge --sync without following it with emerge
--update is rather pointless, and that would require /usr to be mounted
rw wherever $PORTDIR was.

I do agree that /var is a far more logical location.


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Neil Bothwick

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