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On Sunday 21 Jun 2015 22:02:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> portage for a long long time went in /usr/portage because that's where |
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> FreeBSD put it, and drobbins was mightily enthralled by FreeBSD. |
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> But it's a stupid place for it to go on Linux and most of the sane |
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> technical Gentoo world agrees it really is a better fit in /var/portage. |
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> However, due to a highly unlikely confluence of the phases of the moon |
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> and an oddly-painted bikeshed (aquamarine with ochre polka dots), no-one |
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> seems to have ever gotten around to actually fixing it once and for all |
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> everywhere. |
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> Bottom line: folks will see both in real life. |
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> Procedure: If you have the one, and see the other, then just change the |
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> top-level dir in what you see. |
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Or, as I do, put it in its own partition and you can mount it wherever you |
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like. Just point make.conf and repos.conf/gentoo.conf at it. |
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Actually, using LVM on RAID-1 I have portage, packages and distfiles all in |
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their own partitions; just three of 15 under /dev/vg7. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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