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On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:25, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've brought up this issue before. The main reason for this is to be
> able to say, I want all GNOME-stuff in /usr/local/gnome instead of
> /opt/gnome (for example).
> 
> However if we decide to move everything to /usr this won't be an issue
> anymore. 
> 

I know about that issue .. not entirely what i meant.  Rather, if a app
need to use the base dir for gnome, /opt/gnome as of current, why
hardcode it into the ebuild as /opt/gnome, but not use $GNOME_PATH
instead?  If gnome need to be relocated in future, it will be much
easier ....

Greetings,
  MS