> 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? > > > On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:55, Miles Malone <m.mal...@homicidalteddybear.net>: > > 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 The handbook is apparently out of date on this.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
Thank you for your reply. Now, it is a bit clearer. Nevertheless, the explanation why /var/db/repos/gentoo is better than /usr/portage is still welcomed. :)
