From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3025 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Apr 2003 12:48:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20318 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2003 12:48:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:53:56 -0500 From: DJ Cozatt To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030421085356.35bd1533.user99@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <3EA13B7C.9000009@gmx.net> References: <3EA13B7C.9000009@gmx.net> Organization: Sometimes X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hi, proposal: custom prefix for emerging applications X-Archives-Salt: 0f9f6d11-28db-4d60-8d36-6962c93860ca X-Archives-Hash: 36dc82bfa86a41b31baaf7a1aa2e1c32 On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:05:16 +0200 Thomas Weidner wrote: > X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 > X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > currently, i think, portage merges all apps to /usr. whouldn't it be > possible to customize the prefix ? e.g. in large networks where /usr is > mounted through the network emerge whould need to emerge to /usr/local > to install a program locally. something like PORTAGE_PREFIX="/usr/local" > emerge foo would be nice. Perhaps PORTAGE_PREFIX="/usr" emerge kde would > get rid of /usr/kde :-) Ebuilds whould have to be changed, but this > should be possible after a new version for every ebuild is out. > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > Currently /opt and /usr/local are two candidates for files. A prefix would then enable these to be used. I have often wondered why gnome and kde do not go in /opt. You could then reinstall without overwriting these. I use /usr/local for manually installed stuff and some scripts I have. bus_drivr -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list