Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 <bashful>



You always grab the latest stage3?
I generally make a copy of an exiating up-to-date system and use that.

That works best as they all use NFS and set of links for portage.

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