Talk:/etc/portage/make.conf

Correct Pathing?
To the best of my knowledge, the proper path for make.conf is /etc/make.conf.

Even in my current system, there is no make.conf under /etc/portage/. Am I missing something here? - ShadowCat8 (talk) 22:43, 16 April 2013‎ (UTC)


 * Assuming an up-to-date system, you can run `man make.conf` and read the DESCRIPTION there which explains it in detail, what is not mentioned there is that /etc/portage/make.conf is the new location and /etc/make.conf intends to be dropped over time; the goal here is to consolidate Portage related files in /etc/portage/.


 * Please see "Discussion --> Signature with timestamp" when you edit for the syntax on how to signature your discussion with name and timestamp. - Tom Wijsman (talk) 03:15, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Good catch, ShadowCat8. I have created a redirect from /etc/make.conf to /etc/portage/make.conf in order to help readers find the correct information. I will also make a comment concerning the now depreciated location for  in the /etc/portage/make.conf article. --Maffblaster (talk) 21:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

A Note Or Warning needed
In T:32, there is talk about PORTAGE_TMPDIR. But no reason why we would want to define this environment variable setting.

In these days of increasing STIGS/CISecuriy/various-government security, the mount filesystem option is now being added to more and more  partitions.

Perhaps, a NOTE or WARNING that says: If the  has  mount option in, then  must point elsewhere from its default  setting.

Otherwise, we get the following Portage error message: