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From: Miles Malone <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:55:12
Message-Id: CAM8Dd_33J+eKrTCMBP3fRs6QQRuGu2hz6eR1+aq+v5T+-2MXUA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository by gevisz
1 It was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo.
2 The handbook is apparently out of date on this. If you've got the
3 time I'm sure the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a
4 bug
5
6 On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook
9 > "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain
10 > the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild
11 > repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already
12 > takes around 650 MiB."
13 > that can be found here:
14 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks ?
15 >
16 > Have I correctly understood that the Gentoo ebuild repository default location
17 > is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ during
18 > the installation process?
19 >
20 > Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case?
21 >
22 > Where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be allocated? Why?
23 >

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