From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:45:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544E6895.6010207@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544BD391.7070102@gentoo.org>
On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> 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)...
> I'm only guessing, but I don't think PORTDIR is going away for a while.
Ok, but that doesn't answer the main question...
Mike Gilbert - apparently a gentoo dev - said that ideally we should
remove the PORTDIR setting.
This begs three questions...
1. Is this correct?
2. If so, is there a definitive guide/news item/post somewhere that
explains the details (how and why mainly)?
3. If not, why did Mike say this?
thanks...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-27 15:46 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
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 [this message]
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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