Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > 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).
Any idea why it's different with Gentoo in the first place? /usr also
always sounded wrong to me for the portage tree.
And for other things. Shouldn't /usr/src go somewhere into /var? And
shouldn't /usr/share/config stuff be in /etc?
> 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.
Where do you have the distfiles? I now have it like this:
/var/portage: distfiles, pkgdir and tree
/var/portage/tree: portage tree (on extra partition)
/var/portage/layman: layman
/var/portage/local: my ebuilds
Wonko
