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From: George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:34:34
Message-Id: 1877377.p5BaHfqB2H@drakkar
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Monday 17 December 2012 11:19:20 Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
2 > I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for
3 > /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to
4 > make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P).
5 Finally!
6 And, while we are at it, lets more distfiles out of portage. That is the only
7 (prominent) dir inside that has drastically different storage requirements.
8 Having portage on a separate partition requires now changing defaults, bind
9 mounts or symlinks. It is better to have it done right from the onset then to
10 workaround every time.
11
12 Oh, and +1 on /var/cache/portage for the location.
13
14 George