On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:25 AM, George Shapovalov <geo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 20 December 2012 09:11:39 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> > /var/cache/repositories/local <== the new location for a local overlay > >> > >> Also I wonder if local overlays should be in /var/cache? It might not > >> always be possible to restore them. > > So, this is the present /usr/local/portage? What's wrong with it? > > According to FHS, /usr/local/ is reserved for local admin meddling, which > > fits > > the bill rather nicely fo local overlay. This is the one location that was > > actually making sense from the beginning. > > I actually like the /var/cache/repositories approach. You can always > add a symlink to it if you want to for convenience (as I already do > for /var/lib/portage/world). There is really nothing special about > /usr/portage, other than it being the lowest-priority overlay. If we do this, I don't like the name repositories -- what kind of repositories? should I put git repositories in there?
> As far as the local one goes - again this is configurable in > /etc/make.conf, and we don't really need to pre-create that directory > either. Right, there is nothing to pre-create for this; it should be left to the user. William
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