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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS Re: [gentoo-user]
 Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
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On 2013-10-01 10:14 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2013 08:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>
>> So... if the change from /usr/portage to /var/portage was official, is
>> there any (official) documentation on precisely how to move it?
>>
>> Hmmm.... more importantly, when did this change occur? Is it possibly
>> tied to portage 2.2? The reason I ask is, I'm still on 2.1, and man
>> portage still has references to:

> Everyone agrees it should go under /var somewhere, and that the
> distfiles shouldn't be in the tree,
>
>    http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg54610.html
>
> but no one location was chosen IIRC.

?

I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch 
installation.

Someone had to decide the defaults - so, what are they? Anyone?