On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:21 +0000, Stroller wrote: > > But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different > > general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of > > my head, but putting something in "/var" ought to indicate that it is > > somewhat different in nature &/or purpose to something in "/usr". The > > main Portage tree & a layman overlay are not so fundamentally > > different, IMO. > > That's right, they should both be in /var.
I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS). My set up is: portage: /var/portage/ my overlay: /var/portage/local/alan/ layman: /var/portage/local/layman/* As portage is hard-coded to not fiddle with $PORTDIR/local/, this works well for me and every ebuild on the system is under one mount point. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
