I think you confused my message. When I said "I've always been told..." I didn't mean I was told it was part of the standard, I mean it is common knowledge, common sense, rule-of-thumb, best practice -- whatever. Yes there is FHS but I don't consider it the Bible. most distros break FHS in some way anyhow... I mean let's get a little realistic here. We're talking about temporary files, not /etc/passwd...
My main point was not to point out theory (FHS) but practice. Over two years of use shows that it is perfectly fine to run portage in /tmp (with tmp on tmpfs) and, if you take a second to think about it, it does make sense that that would be a viable alternative. You mentioned exceptions like OpenOffice and I suggested a workaround. As always YMMV. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
