[gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

[Alan E. Davis]

I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I could then burn them to a CD and carry them home. 

However, on Monday I arrived to find that while "locate downloads" found this directory, it isn't there anymore! 

Does portage do something to check the configuration of /usr/portage?  I emerged a new portage last friday also.

These are SATA drives on an amd64 system, running as ~amd64.

perplexedly,

Alan Davis