Re: [gentoo-user] Recent changes to install procedure

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 12:24:51AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>
>> I'll insert CHOST and MAKEOPTS to play safe.  Any other gotchas in
>> recent installs?
>   So far so good. The basic system is installed and booting.  One
> question... can I just set the "bindist" USE flag globally.  On a basic
> text install (Xorg not installed yet) in package.use I've already set...
>
> dev-libs/openssl bindist
> net-misc/openssh bindist
> net-wireless/iw bindist
> net-wireless/wpa_supplicant bindist
>


Just out of curiosity I did a euse -i bindist.  It seems what that flag
does sort of depends on the package it is set for.  You may want to
investigate what it will do on those packages before setting it
globally.  Of course, if the majority of the time you want that enabled,
you could disable it for those packages where it does something you
don't want but have the default set to on.  Whichever is easier. 

Hope that helps.

BTW, I moved my tree and such to /var/cache/portage/ a few years ago. 
At the time, that was the location most supported but I guess time
changed things and they picked another location.  Other than knowing
what location for emerge and friends to put and look for the related
items, it doesn't matter where one puts it really, as long as
permissions are correct. 

Dale

:-)  :-)