On 5 February 2011 16:15, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:43:11 +0100 > Cedric Sodhi <man...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially >> not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. > > Hi Cedric! > > Why gentoo-user@ ? Choosing (and changing) reasonable defaults is up to > developer. You could add gentoo-dev@ to CC to get technical answers. > Opening bugzilla entry might also help to get an attention.
He already did. He was told to ask here. :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX) And there are several others asking for the same/similar changes. All the way back to 2004, AFAICT. I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's installed Gentoo from /usr/portage to /var/portage but why not try to get new installs set up properly? Then perhaps an explanation on how existing installs could be migrated for those wanting to do so? It would seem that all that's required is: 1) add an explicit PORTDIR=/usr/portage to /etc/make.conf for existing installs (unless PORTDIR is already specified, of course); 2) change the default. Is it really more complicated than that?
