On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:20 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to > be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg). > > I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for > /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to > make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). > > The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports > put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same. > > With respect to reality how stuff is done in the linux land all the > variable data should be in /var so we should adjust and move it in > there too. > > What would you think? do it. stick it somewhere in /var. i have a small SLC SSD just for /var and /usr/portage partitions, since those consistently incur high writes. dropping to just one partition for all that i/o would be real nice. if this proposed change is made, please make sure to contact the GDP. while we don't update things like manpages or elog announcements, we would have a ton of stuff to fix in gentoo.org/doc/en/ . also, make sure stuff is sorted out on the catalyst/releng end well in advance, so users aren't stuck with bad stages.
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