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.
reduced_username- If set, Paludis will use this username rather than
paludisbuildwhen 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.confis 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).