Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

[Philipp Riegger]

On 17.12.2012 11:23, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
>>
>> I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for
>> /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to
>> make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P).
>
> I would say let's work on that so that portage can keep them there.
> Although I'm more for /var/cache/portage myself, as both distfiles and
> tree can be re-generated.
>

With this change distfiles and packages could be moved to a directory 
which is not a subdir of portage. Something like

/var/cache/{portage,distfiles,packages}

or

/var/cache/portage/{tree,distfiles,packages}

since the file types and storage requirements are so different. At least 
I prefer not to have too many filesystems mounted inside each other.

Philipp