From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDbjo-00075g-A2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:38:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDCD6E097C; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF033E097C for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6358067DCE for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.552 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.552 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.047, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ah-m6-03nQaq for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30DF67DF0 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NDbjB-00033n-KW for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20091018091154.GB464@gentoo.org> <7c612fc60911191626p7c32374fhf597787f2d30dfd3@mail.gmail.com> <4B05F3F3.9020902@gentoo.org> <20091120090338.GK19586@gentoo.org> <7c612fc60911251543p70dfa240gf09feb46f18e3323@mail.gmail.com> <20091126085303.GG19586@gentoo.org> <20091126101009.GM19586@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5aa58bd3-c98f-4f70-bdc6-36f56551b9f4 X-Archives-Hash: ba9ad0def918ddd1e141f583781cda0e Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:10:09 +0100 as excerpted: > Gentoo Prefix tries to be as much self-sufficient as possible, and henc= e > applications *must* not reference the host system, unless absolutely > necessary, such as for e.g. /lib/libc.so. Thanks. Host libc /does/ make sense as "absolutely necessary. Are there any less obvious ones, say of the type that might reach out and= =20 grab an unsuspecting dev trying to make his ebuilds prefix compliant? It= =20 seems to me that enumerating all (or all non-corner) cases where=20 referencing the host is desired/mandatory, with a blanket rule saying=20 reference prefix unless it's a known exception, should be by /far/ the=20 easiest alternative, here. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman