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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:56:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 17:08:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:39:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > > Check /etc/portage/repos.conf
>> >
>> > That's it! Many thanks, Bruce.
>>
>> Indeed. That directory was either empty or absent on all my systems.
>> copying repos.conf from /usr/share/portage and modifying the path got rid
>> of the message.
>
>
> Shouldn't this file be populated by settings in /etc/portage/make.conf?
>
> I can't recall editing manually and it seems to have bespoke settings that I
> have in make.conf ...
>

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.