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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var
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Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> I'm not sure if the portage team has decided what to do long-term.

The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY
completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough:
With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository,
you are not even forced to have a *single* major repository
(AFAIK, this is called mix-ins in some other package managers),
etc.