diff --git a/hackport.cabal b/hackport.cabal
--- a/hackport.cabal
+++ b/hackport.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version: 3.0
 name:          hackport
-version:       0.8.2.1
+version:       0.8.2.2
 license:       GPL-3.0-or-later
 license-file:  LICENSE
 author:        Henning Günther, Duncan Coutts, Lennart Kolmodin
diff --git a/src/Portage/Host.hs b/src/Portage/Host.hs
--- a/src/Portage/Host.hs
+++ b/src/Portage/Host.hs
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
               } deriving (Read, Show)
 
 defaultInfo :: LocalInfo
-defaultInfo = LocalInfo { distfiles_dir = "/usr/portage/distfiles"
+defaultInfo = LocalInfo { distfiles_dir = "/var/cache/distfiles"
                         , overlay_list  = []
-                        , portage_dir   = "/usr/portage"
+                        , portage_dir   = "/var/db/repos/gentoo"
                         }
 
 -- query paludis and then emerge