Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
He already did. He was told to ask here. :-)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX)
Ah, I see. So, gentoo-dev@ is the way to go :]
I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's
installed Gentoo from /usr/portage to /var/portage but why not try to
get new installs set up properly? Then perhaps an explanation on how
existing installs could be migrated for those wanting to do so?
It would seem that all that's required is:
1) add an explicit PORTDIR=/usr/portage to /etc/make.conf for existing
installs (unless PORTDIR is already specified, of course);
2) change the default.
Is it really more complicated than that?
I guess sending proposal with patches to gentoo-dev@ would speed things a bit.
The devs have discussed this several times before. I seriously doubt
this will be changed since it would have been easier to have done it a
long time ago. You know, back when there was a lot fewer people running
Gentoo. Of course, it will be harder a few years from now too but I
still don't see them changing this. They have had several chances to
and have not done so.
I do agree it should be moved, I just don't see it happening. If it was
up for a vote, I'd vote to move it and at that point, I could adjust my
partitions to reflect the change. I sure wouldn't want to be on the
planning team for this tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
