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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: location of portage tree
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:44:54
Message-Id: pan.2012.03.29.02.42.09@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree by Ian Stakenvicius
1 Ian Stakenvicius posted on Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:53:16 -0400 as excerpted:
2
3 > Although, we could always make emerge do an automatic --sync if, say,
4 > /path/to/portage/profiles doesn't exist. :)
5
6 Ugh, no. Some (many?) of us have a separate portage tree partition, and
7 occasionally accidentally do an emerge <something> without it mounted.
8 Having portage decide that it should automatically start downloading a
9 new tree directly onto the filesystem containing the mountpoint is *NOT*
10 ideal!
11
12 --
13 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
14 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
15 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: location of portage tree Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>