From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rrd89d$a7i$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7cD=0SjW3mO4WSL7sdGM=AyFyw9h0PcSUtr9TN9=4n=HA@mail.gmail.com>
On 16/12/2020 13:51, 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?
Wherever you want. I have on /mnt/Data/gentoo/portage, so... meh :P
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-16 15:15 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
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 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2020-12-16 15:41 ` [gentoo-user] " 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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