On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:21 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All, > > is there a tracker for when the portage tree can be moved out of > /usr/portage by default? I suspect the answer is 'whenever' but that mostly depends on implementation and what you want to accomplish. Do you want: - All hosts everywhere to move from $CURRENT to $NEW? - Only new installs to move from $CURRENT to $NEW? > > If not, what is the status of us being able to do this? The former is probably 3 times easier than the latter. - Get testers to move their tree and report issues[0]. - Change the stage3 defaults to be the new location. - Explicitly do nothing else. New installs will get the new location, old installs will get the old location. The latter is harder (one must design and execute a migration for existing installs) and I suspect the value of such a migration is low and the risk high. Is there any advantage to migrating existing installs? [0] A number of people already point PORTDIR at some other location and appear to operate without major issues. > > Thanks, > > William > >
