Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:56:44 +0100
> Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
> 
>> Just mv /usr/portage /var/portage ? FFS no. Among other things, as
>> many said before, we should really take distfiles out of the tree
>> itself, and packages the same. And I don't want /var/packages
>> or /var/distfiles at all.
> 
> If we are going to move distfiles out of the tree into, what are the
> odds of getting /some/path/portage/local to move somewhere else too?

What program uses this "local" directory? It's not used directly by
portage itself, though portage has an exclude for it in the default
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS setting (in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals).

> That one has irked me for ages, its the one thing left on my systems
> that stops the local tree dir being an exact replica of the upstream
> master.

For portage's defaults, I won't settle for anything less than having
them all refer to separate directories which are *not* nested within one
other. These are the current default settings which violate my requirements:

	PORTDIR=/usr/portage
	DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
	PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
	RPMDIR=${PORTDIR}/rpm
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Thanks,
Zac