Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:39:44 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How many things test whether ROOT=/ ? I seem to recall that being
> fairly common, back when something accidentally set it to //.

Yes, that sucks a fair bit. There are many ebuilds doing that, and most
of those ebuilds append additional slash after it anyway... we really
suck at consistency.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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