Hi,

> How do portage determines where a certain package has to be
> installed (eg, /,
> /usr, /usr/local, /opt or whatever)?

That's in the Makefile of the package, and in the ebuild.  From the
user's viewpoint it's predefined.

> Another question: how can one find out what package a given
> file belongs to?

Check out qpkg.  I believe it is in the gentoolkit package.

Gwen.


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