On 2013-09-30 3:14 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
On 30/09/2013 19:25, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Alan wrote:
>>> Charles wrote:
But... is /usr/portage the default/recommended location? If so, then I
don't think I want to move it - I generally never change defaults unless
there is a very good reason to do so.
It's /var/portage for new installs. If you want it to be somewhere else,
just move it and adjust make.conf
really? so when I moved PORTDIR to /var/portage I was ahead of the rest?
Wow...
You were ahead of me for sure :-)
So... if the change from /usr/portage to /var/portage was official, is
there any (official) documentation on precisely how to move it?
Hmmm.... more importantly, when did this change occur? Is it possibly
tied to portage 2.2? The reason I ask is, I'm still on 2.1, and man
portage still has references to:
/usr/portage/sets
/usr/portage/metadata
/usr/portage/profiles
/usr/share/portage/config
and man make.conf still says:
PKGDIR = [path] <snip>
Defaults to /usr/portage/packages.
and most importantly:
PORTDIR = [path] <snip>
Defaults to /usr/portage.
So... are you quite certain that this default has in fact changed?
I know that it is probably trivial, but I like to read official docs for
things like this...
Thanks again...
