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Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 22:02, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > > It should't be too much effort to let loose some scripts on the
> > > portage tree to fix --preifx=/usr to --preifx=$SOME_PREFIX_VAR where
> > > the SOME_PREFIX_VAR can be set in /etc/make.conf.
> > 
> > There's more to it than that, but, arguably, nothing that cannot be
> > done.
> 
> I don't have a problem supporting this, as long as relocatable ebuilds
> are actually tested and not just assumed to work.  What % of srpms
> support relocation anyway?

srpms or rpms?  if you use an srpm to build an rpm for your own use then 
you can easily specify configure paths in your .rpmmacros file (I used to 
do this), assuming the rpm spec file hasnt hard coded the configure paths,
which is essential what we are talking about here with portage.  on the
other hand most rpm based distro will only seem to build and ship rpms
that aren't relocatable. of course when you install and rpm you could
always --force (I think) or --relocate --badreloc.

Dave