On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:56 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/12/2012 15:49, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > What about setups where portage tree is mounted via NFS to reduce traffic and > > disk space? > > Since nothing in Gentoo and/or other distributions _enforces_ FHS, > you're allowed to do as you prefer.... > > > FHS states[1] that /var/cache is *locally* generated. Which aould not be the > > case for such setups... > > Again, you can do as you prefer. Do you wish to violate FHS to just keep > in the usual place? You can. You want to move it somewhere else to > adhere to FHS? You can. > > > I prefer /var as well, but I am not such if /var/cache would be the right > > place... > > Any other suggestions on where to place it? And please don't say > /var/lib because that would usually be backed up. > then /var/repositories/ similar to my previous reply. It is very clear by the name what it's purpose is. Also name the portage tree dir gentoo like it's repo_name and all but one of the layman overlays available to install. -- Brian Dolbec