On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:33:44 GMT n952162 wrote:
> On 1/5/21 11:17 PM, n952162 wrote:
> > I'm thinking about putting the stuff in /var/tmp/portage on another
> > drive and linking with a symlink.  Is there a better way?
> 
> Thank you all for the suggestion about make.conf.  I'd seen something
> about configuring it in
> 
> *|/etc/portage/env/notmpfs.conf|*
> 
> ||and that seemed unfamiliar.
> 
> *||*

You could use /etc/portage/env/ to specify various emerge directives for a 
particular package, while the rest will be built using the default settings.

Setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR in make.conf will define the default directory for all 
packages.

What is it you are trying to achieve?