On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:56:44 +0100 >> Diego Elio Pettenņ <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: >> >>> Just mv /usr/portage /var/portage ? FFS no. Among other things, as >>> many said before, we should really take distfiles out of the tree >>> itself, and packages the same. And I don't want /var/packages >>> or /var/distfiles at all. >> >> If we are going to move distfiles out of the tree into, what are the >> odds of getting /some/path/portage/local to move somewhere else too? > > What program uses this "local" directory? It's not used directly by > portage itself, though portage has an exclude for it in the default > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS setting (in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals). >
layman used to use /usr/portage/local for storing overlays. See code listing 2.2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
