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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] 2004.2 Feature Requests
From:       Andy Herrman <aherrman () andrew ! cmu ! edu>
Date:       2004-05-04 17:10:57
Message-ID: 4097CEA1.2040608 () andrew ! cmu ! edu
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That just moves distfiles, not where packages are installed.
Ok, here's the example that caused this.  I recently installed ut2004 
(yay linux binaries on-disk).  There's no ebuild for it (at least not as 
of when I got it), but I wouldn't be surprised if one shows up, as there 
are ones for 2003.  Anyway, using the installer on disk I tried to 
install to my root partition as would normally be done, only to find 
that I had no where near enough space to install it (5.x GIGs!).  So 
instead I ran the installer as the user and just installed it to my home 
directory.  Using the installer on disk allowed me to do this, but if I 
had used an ebuild I probably wouldn't have been able to do this.  And I 
can forsee this being an issue with other packages as well (though not 
to this scale).  What I would like to be able to do is emerge something 
as a user and have it be installed in that user's space.  No biggie though.

    -Andy

lukas wrote:

>On Monday 03 May 2004 19:44, Andy Herrman wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Not really important, but I thought it would be useful.  Then again,
>>my reason for using it is that my root partition is full but my home
>>partition still has a few gig left.
>>    
>>
>
>Just move e.g. /usr/portage/distfiles to /home/rootspace/distfiles
>(or whatever) and make a symlink with e.g.:
>
>ln -s /home/rootspace/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles 
>
>cu
>
>lukas
>  
>

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