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-rw-r--r--cnf/make.conf4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf
index 50746a8ab..312d2fc5e 100644
--- a/cnf/make.conf
+++ b/cnf/make.conf
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@
# all files from this directory since they will be automatically
# fetched on demand for a given build. If you would like to
# selectively prune obsolete files from this directory, see
-# eclean from the gentoolkit package.
+# eclean from the gentoolkit package. Note that locations under
+# /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data storage. See the
+# PORTDIR documentation for more information.
#DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
#
# PKGDIR is the location of binary packages that you can have created