On 02/10/2013 14:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:04:16 -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, > > Just curious. > >> it is because I have a policy >> that I never change the defaults for anything without a (good) reason. > > That's reasonable, but I feel there's a good reason here - the default > location sucks. > >>> 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... > > Let's just say he appeared to misremember :)
A spade is a spade, not a hand-powered earth moving implement. He was plain wrong :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
