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 ;-)


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