On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:29:56PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:16:06 -0500 Kito <kito@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | > b) assume that you'll not have to modify ebuilds
> | 
> | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive assumption have they?
> 
> pvdabeel has for pathspec.
> 
> | > and c)
> | > demand that as soon as it's available, it works for all ebuilds.
> | 
> | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive demand have they?
> 
> pvdabeel has for pathspec.

You're not talking to pvdabeel right now, so kindly be quiet about 
him.

Further, don't argue the dev point, no one cares- we're discussing 
prefix, not getting pulled into tangents of pathspec nor slams at 
other devs.


> | ICANINSTALLTO was the best idea presented, but that implies it would  
> | be a list of known working prefixes, which seems unrealistic. Maybe  
> | it would be better to have portage error check that globally at the  
> | load_config stage against a list of known stupid prefixes,  
> | stupidprefixes=["/usr","/","/bin"] etc. etc.
> 
> The plan was to have ICANINSTALLTO="root home prefixed" or somesuch.
> The name isn't particularly clear on that...

See email naming it as domain.  Home being a later target; not sure 
about prefixed, but it's as good of a name as any other (arbitrary, in 
other words).
~harring