From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:27:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013152710.79bb7980@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gcum81$rqv$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:16:01 +0100
Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Unless someone can say what using PROPERTIES=prefix would break, I'd
> go with that. It's a /classic/ usage of that variable, as it's simply
> a boolean; PROPERTIES is well-defined and I'm hoping all the manglers
> support it. It'd be great to see the prefix branch finally merged so
> we all get to play with it.
It would break. Prefix ebuilds won't work unless ED is set, and a non
PROPERTIES aware or non-prefix-property aware package manager won't set
ED. Unless prefix is reimplemented to require no package manager
changes for the install to / case, PROPERTIES is out.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 18:11 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Fabian Groffen
2008-10-09 22:05 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 0:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-10-10 2:21 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 7:15 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 12:40 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-10-10 12:48 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 15:56 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 16:13 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-10 15:21 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-10 8:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-10 12:56 ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-13 5:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-13 14:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-10-13 17:59 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-14 7:48 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-15 10:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-17 14:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-21 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-10-21 19:01 ` Fabian Groffen
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