From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recent changes to install procedure
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 07:56:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190803075611.50bbbd1a@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190803042451.GA2824@waltdnes.org>
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 00:24:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> # NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist Use flag enabled
> PORTDIR="/var/db/repos/gentoo"
> DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
> PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
Hooray! They've changed the default locations to something more sensible.
Keeping data in /usr never made sense, I switched PORTDIR to /var/portage
years ago. Keeping tarballs inside the portage tree made even less sense.
I suspect agreement that change was needed was fairly quick, followed by
years of bikeshedding about where to move them ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Ask a silly person, get a silly answer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-03 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-03 4:24 [gentoo-user] Recent changes to install procedure Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 6:56 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2019-08-03 16:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-03 16:31 ` Dale
2019-08-03 17:10 ` Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-03 17:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 15:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 15:45 ` Dale
2019-08-03 16:04 ` Mick
2019-08-03 16:15 ` Dale
2019-08-03 17:13 ` Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 17:35 ` Dale
2019-08-03 18:39 ` Walter Dnes
2019-08-03 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
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