It was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo. The handbook is apparently out of date on this. If you've got the time I'm sure the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a bug
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook > "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain > the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild > repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already > takes around 650 MiB." > that can be found here: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks ? > > Have I correctly understood that the Gentoo ebuild repository default location > is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ during > the installation process? > > Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case? > > Where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be allocated? Why? >
