"Paul de Vrieze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I would like to add that actually not all of the data in /usr/portage is
> dispensible. If the profile directory is removed, emerge will not work (we
> might be able to fix this).

But it works well enough to run emerge sync, which restores the profile
directory.

> Further in the /var/cache/edb dir there are files that are not caches
> in that sense of the word. They are also not replaceable. So I think
> if we want to have this discussion we need to look at all files that
> are involved in portage.

Yes, the state data in /var/cache/edb should be in /var/lib, and the
world file should be in /etc (or /var/lib).

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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