From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10764138252 for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 15:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67189E086D; Tue, 10 May 2016 15:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23601E0855 for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 15:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.6.147] ([91.125.237.217]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue104) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M3SWO-1bqk3E0HZ2-00r1oa for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 17:22:56 +0200 Message-ID: <5731FCCA.7050707@iee.org> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:22:50 +0100 From: "M. J. Everitt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT References: <1462729330-24788-1-git-send-email-floppym@gentoo.org> <5731F960.50205@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5731F960.50205@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 OpenPGP: id=93C22371 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6orfs4NdrVmmDt8XUNctmjLb0PerGSKiF" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:wztTA5zY8kpO/yOWYOkLi8iUHkNjyzMFkXstuf38FjBX4HSg1Zm 9qmHAPITRUoRpeD0wqlUcIFkButYAl0I7bRDifYQoZZJG461C5yuIyd+JTxaVAs5laNfDEL DG4c5585+s5liFXu2Yn9BAE3hrYdw0ftrQsYxvejU2hQzc4cfAG9B8h7REvxz3wdkn713iZ l0AaF9cI5EM8V/TxzOFwg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:pC3dcGSSeGk=:RafGL7R4G+tnHEm8cnIVtZ BO9v1blXvO1iH/7Xa8Wx1GEHyfE0j7dO0KFVKeci6Mhq4faDN9UsSL92yEeH7TMu4E+Z7tvFI x+XsCuwrRhSb/toEMNhH0KTpAnqiAjxOeJOhS0G3/AT9H0G1sRyl2XKHjX3cu8hkw1tquPghj vqbDdZYnmmBZzS+vwpOlPb8s44lbT7LARv0qwB+HYQELohbbiK5KcO0t7EG0XpgZ4t7kuBwb3 FM7SQ6mWFeTuaPo481fTFD/D5lIZOo7DFAZwG327NvUUD9r7Bt2YflanlUyqjMZKdYIt1Rw80 g4WITmwoeli0xeEX1MNFEXGvBsjLcU00kJzxUKBNhw8IplmwWLH78nuLjCqijy15OAtgfCwjL 8QBshaaUZB6OaVfg8zC76FaL4T9yVvUWz8+adnZ+gUEOnUr65drAmYu4DTQd4Qsm8lBpTuQxD D3WcrM7Gna6gUYlLm+aEj69nxxCQlMNCI1emXGwqJQAyewIZ3alivbf5nIqokA0LGzJzKQrfU F0KHHjUgYWGA6YlZLer9blIEYagPBbX4HQ9XZXDkB7sMtqhkETA11BX/GmSdgw2viSvGy/oEJ SW+sNTt4AYkWCI8oUnvkvnjXsH/Nnr9uifxSZy3LwB5eK+WRK8L+1HlNivKo9IyHl6BWoBadG bH5a2ekFQkFVRleNAfjsjKSNPxm01cHIH7kMFcwkHJq1aQWHNUvP27Rkr9RB7+Mv2MZg= X-Archives-Salt: a28ceff4-2a34-4c89-9471-ed76988ffb65 X-Archives-Hash: 6298fb230524b54c11e897c2a1bb250d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --6orfs4NdrVmmDt8XUNctmjLb0PerGSKiF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/05/16 16:08, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/08/2016 01:42 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses peopl= e. >> The new description is paraphrased from PMS. > The current version is bad, but the PMS version isn't great either. > > We really need examples for D, ROOT, ED, EROOT, and EPREFIX. > When/where/why should they (not) be used? How do they compare/contrast?= > A lot of people just guess. Our invocation of emake DESTDIR=3D"${D}" > pretty well explains $D, but how the rest of them interact is left up t= o > your imagination. Agreed .. the devmanual doesn't expand a lot on this, and many of the other ebuild variables A, S, etc and how to properly use them. The 'emake' statement is part of default phases in EAPI5+ so this may/should(?) not appear in newer ebuilds I would have thought, but perhaps someone could clarify on this. 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