On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting >> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to >> configure it. >> >> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools >> which parse make.conf directly.
> <Scratches head> ... so are we supposed to guess this, wait for a news > article > somewhere, or will it show up in an emerge log somewhere? So... would appreciate a response from someone who knows. I really dislike making systemic changes like this without really solid guidance on how (and hopefully the why too)...