Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds

[Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>]

On 18-10-2009 13:57:10 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Hi,
> You know i am totaly supporting prefix but i have one point.
> Why on earth portage simply does not detect the prefix enviroment is being run 
> and then INTERNALY switch D->ED and other variables. It would be much easier 
> that way to migrate all stuff in portage instead of doing this || shebang. 
> Mostly when it is done by eclasses its quite cool, but when you get into 
> changing lots of ebuilds its quite hard for maintaining.
> 
> Even the multilib overlay guys rather modify the portage than changing a load 
> of ebuilds.

Of course we would like to do that, but that was rejected for EAPI=3, so
it will at least take until EAPI=4 is implemented, which is not the
forseeable future, given that EAPI=3 isn't a fact yet either.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level