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 E26F41381F3 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28D58E0C14; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B716AE0BE6 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id l18so6069646wgh.28 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:19:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TX5tuVowrDgvDgvZXPEWw5M5J5AkEEwE4iP3UrcHUoU=; b=ldqervf+cVcDxSZiI0c6qXIr4eKEIC7yS7x0fNIODZ0WzH1sS5bGFfRCvXFMcbw6YI DSk5X2QzGxMO+EvLJaMlSW9mYGebhnemBtTqt/6QnvhUHW2CHhOCM0sMdpfZqun9TDX9 SBCMwg27rhqqk3Udg340JRjkAY/I+ohesKm8BOLuOFZ0u1DFH8pcZkkMdvgjA3rFIi62 px+mPZE96tfUl8GmEcjHiMHjUNDUiN7fyivOhso4QUdm7uJc3cdSWc7z2sJdSQk/wbOt 5nCWjdOzaajbWHTnJOn9sHoPG388B5UgEo3sMW4yDDV06sHo1m9KxPRWIShokiC1j8qx voIQ== X-Received: by 10.180.187.51 with SMTP id fp19mr15304164wic.1.1380568756313; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-121.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dl10sm1935333wib.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5249CDA4.5090700@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:14:44 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 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> In-Reply-To: <5249B421.8070909@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2918920-87b9-43b8-9a70-15c94e765014 X-Archives-Hash: fb33049e75a2bc681c38937870dcff34 On 30/09/2013 19:25, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> But... is /usr/portage the default/recommended location? If so, then I >>> >> don't think I want to move it - I generally never change defaults unless >>> >> there is a very good reason to do so. >> > It's /var/portage for new installs. If you want it to be somewhere else, >> > just move it and adjust make.conf >> > >> > > really? so when I moved PORTDIR to /var/portage I was ahead of the rest? > Wow... > You were ahead of me for sure :-) I clearly remember one day long long ago you ranted and raved about how a huge chunk of /usr was write-often... ... so I fiddled with mine to make it work on /var too and was very happy with it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com