Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Cedric Sodhi <manday@×××.net> wrote:
> There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially
> not) the distfiles should reside in /usr.
>
<SNIP>

I have no opinion on the subject really, but can't you build a link
from /usr/portage to anywhere you want to put it? I put
/usr/portage/distfiles on a separate partition as I hate running out
of disk space on my root partition when I've not cleaned up distfiles.

The only reason I could give for not changing is I don't want to teach
my fingers /var/portage vs what they already know. That's a pretty
weak reason.

- Mark