Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me
from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree
from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage?

I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/portage tree -
separate (optimized) fs, easy to backup (snapshot?) or omit from backup
(a lot of small files, completely irrelevant to system operation), easy
to share between several machines along w/ packages built from it,
and /usr/portage/packages should be inconsistent w/o layman tree, if
it's used at all... but moving it to /usr/local, which isn't used
by gentoo at all seem completely irrational to me, why?

Oh, and I know that I can keep it all in the same place, of course, and
I always do just that, still...

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net