On 02/10/2013 14:04, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-10-01 2:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch >>> installation. > >> Why? > > While I'm not sure why it matters to you, it is because I have a policy > that I never change the defaults for anything without a (good) reason. > >> If ever there was a distro for people that didn't want to use >> defaults, Gentoo is it. > > True, but irrelevant to my question... > >>> Someone had to decide the defaults - so, what are they? Anyone? > >> I installed a VM a couple of weeks ago and I'm sure portage was still >> in /usr. It's easy enough to tell, unpack a stage 3 and see where the >> portage directory lives, but the handbook still refers to /usr/portage. > > So you're saying Alan was wrong about /var being the new default... > > Alan?
Yes, I looks like I was wrong all along. You should still move portage to var though. Consider it a local fix to a long-standing bug. Incidentally, do you know why the tree is in /usr? Because FreeBSD ports puts it there. Why did they do that? Because FreeBSD is not Linux; it is derived from SysV, which puts home directories and all manner of other things in /usr. It's as simple as that. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
