On Sunday 21 Jun 2015 22:02:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > portage for a long long time went in /usr/portage because that's where > FreeBSD put it, and drobbins was mightily enthralled by FreeBSD. > > But it's a stupid place for it to go on Linux and most of the sane > technical Gentoo world agrees it really is a better fit in /var/portage. > However, due to a highly unlikely confluence of the phases of the moon > and an oddly-painted bikeshed (aquamarine with ochre polka dots), no-one > seems to have ever gotten around to actually fixing it once and for all > everywhere. > > Bottom line: folks will see both in real life. > Procedure: If you have the one, and see the other, then just change the > top-level dir in what you see.
Or, as I do, put it in its own partition and you can mount it wherever you like. Just point make.conf and repos.conf/gentoo.conf at it. Actually, using LVM on RAID-1 I have portage, packages and distfiles all in their own partitions; just three of 15 under /dev/vg7. -- Rgds Peter
