Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

[William Hubbs]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:47:10PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:25:58AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> >> On 28 March 2012 08:05, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >> /var/cache/repositories/gentoo/*
> >> /var/cache/repositories/perl-experimental/*
> >> /var/cache/distfiles/*
> >> /var/cache/packages/*
> >
> > These sub directories are all portage related, so it is best to put them
> >  under /var/cache/portage.
> >  Look in /var/cache on your system; most of the directories in there (at
> >  least on my system) are named for the program that uses them.
>
> The gentoo-x86 ebuild tree is not necessarily portage related.
> However I think we should paint the bike shed '/srv/tree'
heh ;-)

What I was wanting to discuss mainly was that /usr/portage isn't right;
I think we need to move that out of the /usr directory.

I'm not sure what the new default should be, nor how the default should
be decided. Maybe we just let Zac pick one?

William