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 629331381F3 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 22:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AB9DE0B2A; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 22:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f179.google.com (mail-ie0-f179.google.com [209.85.223.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82F76E0A81 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 22:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f179.google.com with SMTP id e14so27863iej.38 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=9Sf0hV2izqjpDru/jszYJ7fmogEaQj5gPjYZz6lh/6M=; b=BuOIVDwS0wiVpbaWyFfGkEW9WNPLja+pePYZZn/5Ys/vh3KVfwxF3q+YdaiNkorCV7 RbRmD0kXrYik+y55VJcARb08F+DubMJDh+7XexTHTaNU0yhRC6lwFpYI/iWaues3az7X 8B9tLlVqfLsr3GwQqOsJSjwcX8DwDfzicfVp7BlJwGSMASzdzTwsBLeZo8cORMGt8Ugu qxYL9jweYldsMqLawr0Ure0Kmkmzi9QoDrT4FuaoOr61Pb0rTOYJmAFdZ1dWldUwVfln 4K0TudoNBX2JwbllPoxo2DRtU4StGuNoWR/fz2Cu9lhNyJVOzjs4sxU9zKD4M1nfGJg6 0H6g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmFAIMxhzc+DuFR+UkihuabEssyHXtKYt1M8Tr8NHcMA+2TE+grYs1BDDDDyHL5IoehoTqz 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 X-Received: by 10.42.121.132 with SMTP id j4mr9508635icr.42.1380667862114; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: gmt@be-evil.net Received: by 10.64.33.239 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:51:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [75.147.143.253] In-Reply-To: <524B3DAB.3030209@gmail.com> 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> <524B3DAB.3030209@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:51:01 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bEbEtVcUZlkkLl95m1ORLLrMwmU Message-ID: Subject: Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 From: Greg Turner To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: ca351965-bec8-4706-99ca-5e6c5199f63b X-Archives-Hash: dfef00d52d993afe9cd94b9a65736bd0 On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 01/10/2013 20:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch >>> installation. >> >> Why? If ever there was a distro for people that didn't want to use >> defaults, Gentoo is it. >> >>> Someone had to decide the defaults - so, what are they? Anyone? >> >> 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. >> >> > > Please say it isn't so, otherwise I'm going to look like a right royal > chump. > > Or maybe I just change it all on automatic these days and forget it do > it. But it was definitely discussed on -dev at length. i could be wrong > about the end result > Looks like it's still usr/portage here... http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=pym/portage/repository/config.py;h=0d6edf4e3e6dcffb0758caf859a597a8f0996bc0;hb=HEAD#l615 and here http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=cnf/repos.conf;h=8c657daae3259e42e01ea05c689b74293b5224a7;hb=HEAD#l5 I don't see repos.conf in gx86 and I don't see PORTDIR in any gx86-provided make.defaults'es as of yesterday. So I guess it's still usr/portage. I do think I vaguely recall that discussion about /var too though... frankly, /var seems more sensible ... but maybe that's a can of worms I should not be opening in this thread :) -gmt