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It was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo. |
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The handbook is apparently out of date on this. If you've got the |
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time I'm sure the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a |
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bug |
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook |
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> "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain |
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> the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild |
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> repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already |
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> takes around 650 MiB." |
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> that can be found here: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks ? |
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> Have I correctly understood that the Gentoo ebuild repository default location |
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> is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ during |
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> the installation process? |
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> Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case? |
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> Where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be allocated? Why? |
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