On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:02:59 -0400
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> You want the tree to
> be writable, too, so that you can sync from any machine and also because
> of distfiles.

Or you can put distfiles dir outside of portage by adjusting the $DISTDIR
variable in make.conf.

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Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <ticho at gentoo dot org>
Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86