Cedric Sodhi writes:
> There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially
> not) the distfiles should reside in /usr.
>
> /var is expected to be heavily written and read from, as it is the case
> with the portage tree.
That's why I have /var/portage, with subdirectories tree, distfiles,
local, layman, packges and (for my 32bit chroot) packages.32. That's how
I think it should be, so I change it that way. Recently I also began
moving /var/tmp/portage there, so my /var partition could no longer
become full because of emerging openoffice.
> If again, the logical conclusion will be that portage should be moved
> but it is not acted upon but logic is ignored, please ask yourself what
> kind of distribution we are.
>
> "It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by
> more than 300 developers and thousands of users. "
Well, I agree with your point, and I find it strange that this has not
been changed, but - I don't care too much about it. I make a few quick
changes when I install a Gentoo, and that's it.
Wonko
