Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Andrew Cowie <andrew@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local portage repository
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:29:51
Message-Id: 1102206564.12110.10.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com
1 Thanks for your Gentoo policy clarification.
2
3 On Sat, 2004-04-12 at 18:14 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > /opt is used by portage for some packages which are not built from
5 > source (typically packages which come in foo and foo-bin variants).
6
7 Indeed.
8
9 It occurs to me that I would be better off placing the binary blobs I
10 install (that I'm placing by my own preference into /opt "somewhere")
11 into something along the lines of /opt/local
12
13 AfC
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