general.conf
This document applies only to clients using PaludisEnvironment
. Any standard client that supports a
--environment
command line option uses PaludisEnvironment
unless overridden, either by
explicitly selecting another environment (e.g. --environment portage
) or, on distributions also
supporting Portage, by lack of a Paludis configuration and presence of a Portage configuration.
The general.conf
file can be used to control general settings. It is a standard key=value configuration
file, and may optionally be in bash format.
world
- The location of the world file (e.g.
world=${root}/var/db/paludis/repositories/installed/world
). reduced_username
- If set, Paludis will use this username rather than
paludisbuild
when a reduced privilege user is required. distribution
- If set, overrides the distribution used when distribution-specific defaults are used.
The following keys are predefined. They should not be modified.
root
- The filesystem root. Relevant if
specpath.conf
is in use. Using this variable can create a configuration system that works both inside and outside of a chroot (e.g.world = ${root}/var/db/pkg/world
).