From: Miles Malone <m.malone@homicidalteddybear.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:54:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM8Dd_33J+eKrTCMBP3fRs6QQRuGu2hz6eR1+aq+v5T+-2MXUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7cD=0SjW3mO4WSL7sdGM=AyFyw9h0PcSUtr9TN9=4n=HA@mail.gmail.com>
It was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo.
The handbook is apparently out of date on this. If you've got the
time I'm sure the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a
bug
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook
> "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain
> the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild
> repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already
> takes around 650 MiB."
> that can be found here:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks ?
>
> Have I correctly understood that the Gentoo ebuild repository default location
> is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ during
> the installation process?
>
> Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case?
>
> Where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be allocated? Why?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-16 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-16 11:51 [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository gevisz
2020-12-16 11:54 ` Miles Malone [this message]
2020-12-16 14:45 ` gevisz
2020-12-16 14:55 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-16 15:30 ` Victor Ivanov
2020-12-16 15:44 ` gevisz
2020-12-16 14:58 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 15:25 ` antlists
2020-12-16 15:34 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-16 15:52 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 15:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2020-12-16 15:41 ` Dale
2020-12-20 17:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-20 17:16 ` Dale
2020-12-21 9:11 ` Peter Humphrey
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