On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote:
> I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough
> to make remounting it daily rather annoying.

Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage 
is stupid. The logical location for the tree would be on /var ... :)

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Bo Andresen