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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:11:23
Message-Id: 20180709201113.GB17593@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:43:31PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > sys-apps/portage-mgorny has already done that. The defaults locations
3 > have been changed to:
4 >
5 > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles"
6 > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages"
7 > RPMDIR="/var/cache/portage/rpm"
8 >
9 > Plus repositories are in /var/db/repos/<name>. This is also the layout
10 > used by eselect-repository.
11
12 I like this idea, but slightly different; I think we should stay out of
13 /var/db. We don't want folks to go messing around in there and nuke
14 /var/db/pkg by mistake.
15
16 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>