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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree
From:       Graham Murray <graham () gmurray ! org ! uk>
Date:       2012-03-31 7:55:57
Message-ID: 87limhyzjm.fsf () newton ! gmurray ! org ! uk
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote
>
>> Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/
>> which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very*
>> unpopular.
>
>   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part3_chap5
> in the install handbook gives "/usr/local/portage" as an example overlay
> directory.  I thought it was implicit that one shouldn't edit or create
> files in /usr/portage because they may be overwritten by the system e.g.
> during an "emerge --sync".  Maybe the manual needs to state this
> explicitly.  Also, /usr/local is the "standard" place to keep one's own
> software and/or global customizations that aren't handled by the package
> manager, but don't belong in one user's home directory.

Where using /usr/portage/local is useful is for 'site local'
packages. Where one system syncs externally and also has all of the
locally generated/edited packages in /usr/portage/local, and the other
systems share this site local repository simply by running "emerge
--sync" to the 'master' system.

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