[gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[Martin Schlemmer]

Hi

In hacking a few .ebuild, i noticed that most .ebuilds have paths to
where Gnome, Mozilla, etc is hardcoded ?!?

Now I know that it is not everyday that they change, but since the base
location for many packages will be changed now, cant it be done
correctly this time ?  In other words rather use defined variables that
should be defined when the base package is installed (like KDEDIR,
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, etc) since the base package should already have been
merged when you get to subpackages ....

Some suggestions/reasons would be appreciated.

greetings
MS

Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[Mikael Hallendal]

mån 2001-09-24 klockan 14.20 skrev Martin Schlemmer:
> Hi
> 
> In hacking a few .ebuild, i noticed that most .ebuilds have paths to
> where Gnome, Mozilla, etc is hardcoded ?!?
> 
> Now I know that it is not everyday that they change, but since the base
> location for many packages will be changed now, cant it be done
> correctly this time ?  In other words rather use defined variables that
> should be defined when the base package is installed (like KDEDIR,
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, etc) since the base package should already have been
> merged when you get to subpackages ....

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. 

BTW. Testing your Mozilla ebuild right now.

Regards,
  Mikael

> Some suggestions/reasons would be appreciated.
> 
> greetings
> MS
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[Martin Schlemmer]

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:58, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> 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 ....
> 

So maybe i should read better the first time ... but I still think it is
a better practice now that all have to be changed anyhow ...

Greetings,
  MS

Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild

[Mikael Hallendal]

m_ 2001-09-24 klockan 15.07 skrev Martin Schlemmer:
> On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:58, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > 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 ....
> > 
> 
> So maybe i should read better the first time ... but I still think it is
> a better practice now that all have to be changed anyhow ...

I agree with you. However I don't think that it will be needed because
you don't have to give GNOME_PATH when everything is located in /usr.

I'm waiting for the document about this rellocation to /usr to be
finished before starting to move stuff. 

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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