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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 2013-10-02 11:31 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> Because they have no place in the portage tree. The portage tree contains
> thousands of small files, but remains largely the same size. On the other
> hand $DISTDIR and $PKGDIR contain files that are not controlled by
> portage and grow continually without manual intervention.

Ah... so you did move them from /usr, just not into /var/portage...

Ok, thanks much guys... guess I'll go with Alans layout as it makes the 
most sense to me:

/var/portage
/var/distfiles
/var/packages

Thanks again...