On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:43:11 +0100
Cedric Sodhi <manday@gmx.net> wrote:

> There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially
> not) the distfiles should reside in /usr.

Hi Cedric!

Why gentoo-user@ ? Choosing (and changing) reasonable defaults is up to
developer. You could add gentoo-dev@ to CC to get technical answers.
Opening bugzilla entry might also help to get an attention.

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  Sergei