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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
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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