Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>> We should go with a shorter (easier to remember, easier to type) path
>> and move things at least one level up. Two would be even better.

> You shouldn't ever be typing that path in...

Ebuilds tell users to do so:

pkg_nofetch() {
    einfo "Please download ${foo} and place it in ${DISTDIR}"
}