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 24ED91381F3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 740C3E0C58; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f48.google.com (mail-bk0-f48.google.com [209.85.214.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CF7CE0B2D for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f48.google.com with SMTP id my13so291585bkb.7 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:34:13 -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=Z7mWyDtGVfdGmZOfrXFsnxx/EIWBVryeUhjhB3bqsk8=; b=JhZeERNqMFdI+V0/xXaqHOAHei0hcbEnWril+x4nMtm+VU0+nSsYSFfSuO+41e5v5r rbQXrmqfUTVYwe6CILmYiy3tGeQCXxAN9KlIImt6w8pUJHp+9I6hzte7F5pPy9c9Lfn8 4hljOuqjXzyWANpTCIo0A8IVXPtmdZm2rKHbTujD/jvbtD8FPu1HbA+5mRm5+4t5AfrT PsjRSM195/JmKm47XnfHVaVSqOeWqFT1nehB+xu0fz5X8hFE4EYn8nuoHibtD4uA0qQN f/AmSpFf+a22+M6e7rEFpTycnnMbxpaqkEpGci0bwNHCXffIAl6GCqIpxsVscVnyA2yy hCsA== X-Received: by 10.204.55.137 with SMTP id u9mr1933336bkg.28.1380717253827; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-121.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ny10sm1101810bkb.17.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524C11AF.800@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:29:35 +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: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS 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> <5249CDA4.5090700@gmail.com> <524AC184.8000804@libertytrek.org> <524AD8C0.5090906@orlitzky.com> <524B1155.9070809@libertytrek.org> <20131001194834.0cbc592e@digimed.co.uk> <524C0BC0.3060707@libertytrek.org> <20131002131239.23b49f94@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131002131239.23b49f94@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6a32926-c6f7-40cc-ae71-ddacdb4bdeb6 X-Archives-Hash: 91f3cffa8eef6c196e0f3ef3fb8177f4 On 02/10/2013 14:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:04:16 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>>> I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch >>>> installation. >> >>> Why? >> >> While I'm not sure why it matters to you, > > Just curious. > >> it is because I have a policy >> that I never change the defaults for anything without a (good) reason. > > That's reasonable, but I feel there's a good reason here - the default > location sucks. > >>> I installed a VM a couple of weeks ago and I'm sure portage was still >>> in /usr. It's easy enough to tell, unpack a stage 3 and see where the >>> portage directory lives, but the handbook still refers >>> to /usr/portage. >> >> So you're saying Alan was wrong about /var being the new default... > > Let's just say he appeared to misremember :) A spade is a spade, not a hand-powered earth moving implement. He was plain wrong :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com