On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like a bug.
>> All fetch restriction packages I encounter want it in your distfiles folder.
>> (Wherever you configured it to be)
>>
>> I haven't really read the text on these myself lately, so not sure if other
>> packages have the same, but I didn't notice any path other than my distfiles
>> dir.
>>
>> Most common one I have is the citrix 'icaclient'.
>>
>> --
>> Joost
>
>
> Picking random post to reply to so anyone can respond to this question.
> I recall years ago there was talk of moving distfiles and such to a
> directory in /var on new installs at least. At the time, I moved mine
> to /var/cache/portage. I seem to recall that another location ended up
> being picked. Does anyone recall if the move ever did occur and if so,
> where it went? I recall reading about it but can't recall what was
> final on it or if it ended up being moved at all.
>
Do you mean /usr/portage/distfiles?
Can we stop using Oracle's JVM?
Cheers,
R0b0t1
