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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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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:55, Miles Malone <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net>: |
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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 The handbook is apparently out of date on this.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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Thank you for your reply. Now, it is a bit clearer. |
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Nevertheless, the explanation why /var/db/repos/gentoo is better than |
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/usr/portage is still welcomed. :) |
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