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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prefix overide portage
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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.