On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 14:58 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > The default tree location move is waiting on the catalyst rewrite code
> > to go live producing stages, etc..
> 
> I'm exactly sure what this means, but I think you might mean something
> like renaming master to old-master and your branch to master. That's
> not the right way to do it, and that's not how git works.
> 

No, completely wrong.  The default tree location is going to be moved
from /usr/portage to somewhere in /var (they never could agree where)
and distfiles and packages directories are being moved out of the
PORTDIR tree directory.

Current catalyst master code has tree paths hardcoded everywhere.  Not
only that, but the paths are often used as both a path and a variable
name in many places.  

That makes it impossible for the tree move to happen and have catalyst
work correctly to produce stages, etc. with the new default locations.

That is why I started to work on catalyst in the first place.  But the
code is such a mess, I couldn't stop there with the encouragement of
many from the releng team.