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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130414165807.584e8a85@pomiocik.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130414152242.4d11d71b@googlemail.com>

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} always
> > ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording was enforced
> > by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing the ebuilds...) yet
> > it didn't ever get really widespread.
> 
> Should ROOT usually be empty then?

Considering its use, probably yes.

  ${ROOT}/usr/bin/foo
  ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo
  ${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo

All seem clean and consistent to me.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-14 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-13 21:23 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash Michał Górny
2013-04-14  8:31 ` Gregory M. Turner
2013-04-14 10:24 ` Peter Stuge
2013-04-14 11:32 ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 11:34   ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 14:14 ` hasufell
2013-04-14 15:01   ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 14:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-14 14:58   ` Michał Górny [this message]
2013-04-14 16:39     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-14 16:59       ` Michał Górny
2013-04-15 10:56         ` Aaron W. Swenson
2013-04-15 11:01           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-15 17:31             ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-04-15 18:54               ` Gregory M. Turner
2013-04-18 23:02                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long

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