From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D902C1382C5 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45B99E09C2; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lf1-x12d.google.com (mail-lf1-x12d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::12d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCCF0E097E for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf1-x12d.google.com with SMTP id o13so24422903lfr.3 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 03:55:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=homicidalteddybear.net; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Um5M6IbwZX23Ju7CcrE37CqUzjju+Eed48Y5ZnA+Lkc=; b=c8nJorcKh+Du2eKBF5hAsC5vjMN0qWKDt9T3psDZHGREbBGP+GQZXE35yaRbAN8HjG 6IxVeNtrJBd+JU+rmVjHxsufKJwFIscLqdb5HyvDxmYCI5XVSViezAPRBPqmnAkuWTrS ud3MVP9O4fu42t4nT/pm9QXfb2dTC3WnScdIQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=Um5M6IbwZX23Ju7CcrE37CqUzjju+Eed48Y5ZnA+Lkc=; b=HNU0K1cNz5Gn6CVg0GzBLWE5SznPMxVc4zCTAKI7WkK10Y8EsVX4J6iV0d+f8LdkWb bVoZSmBPhXcTF6lDxD0BFFyA84AHf3AOJr8HXW8taRHdjm86PIHmE+Y5N2M7HFZdvQkU Ex0O3N2/3ziZ9ie1qYgvMin/Ppq1Hzu24VA8iI7dhIRVQa221hjEytbpbpuGQq43FcGX n/zYS4R3rN5KpCcRQzGrOSTsP8py8UtBu9WMv0+zH34Zq3ETxL9bIdi65sbuwiiJ2M7q DPuMxKcUzCGJbXeGzAKnd8IQMVls44d7vvi7uzBvBg03/onrkOrBgCtSochAmu7LrxnU JJoQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533LVkCpb4plad48uB7+oDmCoa4kwD7hHxlfNfvL2p1lHDsDHgg6 WTu+gcWQBLo9d1UoxLM/VZtkn3x67XwAN3ofq4wUJdTYmy8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxki3P8sauNwCfbFm7KE/qqVUfJSSd/Fq2lPMeQNfJyd95OgFCvMufj7zlOejskiWmpXvWjHQlMD710MP1cgkc= X-Received: by 2002:a2e:9218:: with SMTP id k24mr15105633ljg.41.1608119705834; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 03:55:05 -0800 (PST) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Miles Malone Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:54:54 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 35d3cb69-181f-48f1-a53f-3f3e93956302 X-Archives-Hash: 34b52d54d2391a5d42d9b12c679c33e4 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 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? >