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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:57:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544BAC39.3050505@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201410072303.55841.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting
>> from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to
>> configure it.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that will break some of the third-party portage tools
>> which parse make.conf directly.

> <Scratches head> ... so are we supposed to guess this, wait for a news article 
> somewhere, or will it show up in an emerge log somewhere?

So... would appreciate a response from someone who knows.

I really dislike making systemic changes like this without really solid
guidance on how (and hopefully the why too)...


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-25 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 15:09 [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 15:29 ` Bruce Schultz
2014-10-07 15:39   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 16:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 21:48       ` Mick
2014-10-07 21:56         ` Mike Gilbert
2014-10-07 22:03           ` Mick
2014-10-25 13:57             ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2014-10-25 16:45               ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-25 17:49                 ` Mick
2014-10-25 17:59                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-26 14:02                     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-26 14:46                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-26  8:56                 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2014-10-27 15:45                 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-27 19:06                   ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-27 20:05                     ` Mike Gilbert
2014-10-29 11:37                       ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-30 11:17                         ` [gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: " Tanstaafl
2014-10-08 11:36           ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2014-10-07 15:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 15:57 ` Tomas Mozes
2014-10-07 16:02   ` Tomas Mozes

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