[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-29 Thread Martin Vaeth
Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure if the portage team has decided what to do long-term. The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough: With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository, you

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do: PORTDIR=$REPOS/gentoo-x86 PORTDIR_OVERLAY= emerge -1 whatever Why don't you do emerge -1 whatever::gentoo Moreover, you can use PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES for temporary overrides of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/26/2014 10:02 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do: PORTDIR=$REPOS/gentoo-x86 PORTDIR_OVERLAY= emerge -1 whatever Why don't you do emerge -1 whatever::gentoo When adding a new ebuild, I