From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:10:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091126101009.GM19586@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2009.11.26.10.01.23@cox.net>
On 26-11-2009 10:01:24 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > required dependencies for. Hence, ekeyword should be installed such
> > that it references the perl from the offset installation, e.g.
> > "/home/joe/gentoo/usr/bin/perl".
> >
> > "/bin/sh" is another nice one.
>
> At least here, that it would ordinarily be best to reference the prefix
> system was taken for granted, so when it's "absolutely necessary" to
> reference the host system is the interesting case, and how I parsed the
> request. You provided examples of just the opposite, the case I (and
> evidently Denis, if I parsed the request correctly) assumed to be normal,
> where referencing the prefix is strongly desirable or "absolutely
> necessary".
I see, thanks for bringing that up. To clarify (I hope this is):
Gentoo Prefix tries to be as much self-sufficient as possible, and hence
applications *must* not reference the host system, unless absolutely
necessary, such as for e.g. /lib/libc.so.
If Gentoo Prefix would not do this, Portage's dependencies would become
useless, and many uncontrollable and unpredictable errors may arise both
at compile time as well as at run time.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-18 9:11 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds Fabian Groffen
2009-10-18 11:57 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-10-18 12:31 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-10-19 19:44 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-10-24 19:37 ` Petteri Räty
2009-10-24 20:00 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-13 11:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-11-20 8:45 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-20 0:26 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-11-20 1:42 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-11-20 9:03 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-25 23:43 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-11-26 8:53 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-26 10:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-11-26 10:10 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2009-11-26 10:37 ` Duncan
2009-11-26 10:51 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-26 12:36 ` Duncan
2009-11-26 15:26 ` Fabian Groffen
2009-11-26 13:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Fabian Groffen
2009-11-26 0:01 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-11-26 9:02 ` Fabian Groffen
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