From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370421381F3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02579E0B1E; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE898E0AF3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B7E723CE7 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:31:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:31:48 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 Message-ID: <20131002163148.5d03a7b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <524C102B.5080907@libertytrek.org> References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <524759FB.2090304@gmail.com> <524869A5.4070306@libertytrek.org> <20130929185504.GA16543@linux1> <524892E3.5080402@libertytrek.org> <52489883.3090408@gmail.com> <5248AF6F.4040405@libertytrek.org> <52493D9F.3080504@gmail.com> <5249B421.8070909@googlemail.com> <5249CDA4.5090700@gmail.com> <524AC184.8000804@libertytrek.org> <524AD8C0.5090906@orlitzky.com> <524B1155.9070809@libertytrek.org> <20131001194834.0cbc592e@digimed.co.uk> <524B3DAB.3030209@gmail.com> <20131002004129.08953715@digimed.co.uk> <524C102B.5080907@libertytrek.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-71-gace330 (GTK+ 2.24.21; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/a==PSz+bYn7Drq+BwtkL2X6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 19ee5d06-729f-4ac8-98be-2c966f85619d X-Archives-Hash: f8f7b952e0f48010c1cf06a8e89a7601 --Sig_/a==PSz+bYn7Drq+BwtkL2X6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:23:07 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > /var makes sense to me, it's where I put the tree (but not packages or > > distfiles). =20 >=20 > Why not these? Because they have no place in the portage tree. The portage tree contains thousands of small files, but remains largely the same size. On the other hand $DISTDIR and $PKGDIR contain files that are not controlled by portage and grow continually without manual intervention. I keep $DISTDIR on an NFS mount for the reason I gave earlier in this thread, to save downloading the files more than once. I have $PKGDIR on the same mount, which is also used for overlays. I would rather have that directory, which is only used for portage files, hit 100% when I'm not looking that /var or /usr. If I were running a single Gentoo machine, I'd probably put $DISTDIR in the logical place of /var/cache (that's where other package managers keep their downloads) and use eclean-dist to stop it overflowing, or put a quota on the directory. --=20 Neil Bothwick If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. --Sig_/a==PSz+bYn7Drq+BwtkL2X6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJMPGkACgkQum4al0N1GQPAeQCeIxPbPg0Xs5+jWtQ9Ele2BUXc f/MAoLlRzNJbA1ucYU5fhafckWyIol9p =78+F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/a==PSz+bYn7Drq+BwtkL2X6--