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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prefix overide portage
Date: 20 Feb 2002 00:15:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1014189353.1051.1.camel@inventor.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r8ngd9uf.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 22:02, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > It should't be too much effort to let loose some scripts on the
> > portage tree to fix --preifx=/usr to --preifx=$SOME_PREFIX_VAR where
> > the SOME_PREFIX_VAR can be set in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> There's more to it than that, but, arguably, nothing that cannot be
> done.

I don't have a problem supporting this, as long as relocatable ebuilds
are actually tested and not just assumed to work.  What % of srpms
support relocation anyway?

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-20  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-19 14:13 [gentoo-dev] prefix overide portage Matt Doughty
2002-02-19 20:00 ` Bruce A. Locke
2002-02-20  4:38   ` Dave Lee
2002-02-20  5:02     ` Arcady Genkin
2002-02-20  7:02       ` Matt Doughty
2002-02-20 10:07         ` Bruce A. Locke
2002-02-20 10:18           ` Gert Menke
2002-02-21  0:46           ` Matt Doughty
2002-02-20  7:15       ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2002-02-20 15:41         ` Dave Lee
2002-02-20  9:53     ` Bruce A. Locke

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