On 10/01/2013 08:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > So... if the change from /usr/portage to /var/portage was official, is > there any (official) documentation on precisely how to move it? > > Hmmm.... more importantly, when did this change occur? Is it possibly > tied to portage 2.2? The reason I ask is, I'm still on 2.1, and man > portage still has references to: >
Everyone agrees it should go under /var somewhere, and that the distfiles shouldn't be in the tree, http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg54610.html but no one location was chosen IIRC.