The subsubsection "How many partitions and how big?" of the Subsection "Designing a partition scheme" of Section "Introduction to block devices" of the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook reads: "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." This is completely misleading as to where the Gentoo ebuild repository should be located. At least, it raises the following questions: 1. Does the Gentoo ebuild repository default location is /var/db/repos/gentoo but virtually everybody relocate it to /usr/ during the installation process? 2. Why not change its default location to /usr/ in this case? I have asked these questions on gentoo-user mailing list and got the answer that the Gentoo ebuild repository was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo. Moreover, I was told that the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a bug. So, I decided to check if it indeed so. :) In my view, if the explanation above was correct, the quoted phrase should be re-formulated to completely exclude any mention of the Gentoo ebuild repository as irrelevant, for example, as follows: "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big as it contains the majority of applications."
I think this may belong on a talk page of the wiki, right?
moved it there https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook_Talk:AMD64/Installation/Disks#Gentoo_ebuild_repository_default_location
Thank you Jonas for posting upstream and thank you gevisz@gmail.com for the bug. This section has been majorly rewritten to be accurate to the (relatively new) default Gentoo ebuild location under /var/. New edit diff can be found here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Handbook:Parts/Blocks/DesigningPartitionScheme&diff=prev&oldid=917809
(In reply to Matthew Marchese from comment #3) > > This section has been majorly rewritten to be accurate to the (relatively > new) default Gentoo ebuild location under /var/. Thank you for addressing the issue. The changed description looks good.
