On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:36:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping <sp...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello! > > > By default layman currently stores overlays into > > /usr/local/portage/layman > > (was /usr/portage/local/layman before that). > As of bug 253725 [1] that's not without problems.
I don't think it should be changed again. It is quite annoying to have to hunt down where the $next layman location is. Why can't layman create /usr/local/portage/layman at runtime if it doesn't exist and then you can remove the keepdir line from the ebuild?? -Jeremy > > I would like to get it right with the next switch. > Would > > /var/lib/layman > > do well? /var/cache/layman seems inadequate as it might not be > regenerated [2] without losses (as upstream moves along). > > Would be great to hear a few opinions. Thanks! > > > > Sebastian > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/253725 > [2] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html
