Summary says it all (mostly). man emerge lists the following file locations in the FILES section: FILES /var/lib/portage/world /etc/make.conf /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/make.profile/make.defaults /etc/make.profile/use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc /etc/make.profile/virtuals Where (at least) /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.profile/make.defaults and /etc/make.profile/use.defaults are not correct on my system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man emerge looking for location of world file 2. try to find file 3. don't profit
They are correct.
Yeah, I realized I goofed for the world file. But make.defaults and use.defaults still are incorrect.
Perhaps not well worded, profiles are now cascading, so your make.profile symlink might not have them, they are present earlier on in a parent profile. IE settings are set in a parent, and extended through their children much like a graph/tree of settings, each adding/subtracting to the last.
yes, cascading profiles is covered more extensivly in `man portage`