"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote > >> Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ >> which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* >> unpopular. > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part3_chap5 > in the install handbook gives "/usr/local/portage" as an example overlay > directory. I thought it was implicit that one shouldn't edit or create > files in /usr/portage because they may be overwritten by the system e.g. > during an "emerge --sync". Maybe the manual needs to state this > explicitly. Also, /usr/local is the "standard" place to keep one's own > software and/or global customizations that aren't handled by the package > manager, but don't belong in one user's home directory.
Where using /usr/portage/local is useful is for 'site local' packages. Where one system syncs externally and also has all of the locally generated/edited packages in /usr/portage/local, and the other systems share this site local repository simply by running "emerge --sync" to the 'master' system.
