On 21/06/2015 19:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:09:53 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > >> Interestingly, you used "var" instead of "usr". From earlier, Martin >> used >> >> "PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/$PROFILE eix -c --system" > > I have PORTDIR at /var/portage. > >
portage for a long long time went in /usr/portage because that's where FreeBSD put it, and drobbins was mightily enthralled by FreeBSD. But it's a stupid place for it to go on Linux and most of the sane technical Gentoo world agrees it really is a better fit in /var/portage. However, due to a highly unlikely confluence of the phases of the moon and an oddly-painted bikeshed (aquamarine with ochre polka dots), no-one seems to have ever gotten around to actually fixing it once and for all everywhere. Bottom line: folks will see both in real life. Procedure: If you have the one, and see the other, then just change the top-level dir in what you see. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
