From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENI9Y-0005Wv-Tf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:54:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95Miwi6017549; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:44:58 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j95MivZG008735 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:44:57 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ENI8d-00081P-TL for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:53:27 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:53:36 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Questions about CVS locations and GID... Message-ID: <20051005225336.GJ10159@nightcrawler> References: <43443257.8090800@egr.msu.edu> <20051005202429.GC10159@nightcrawler> <20051005215703.73327655@snowdrop.home> <20051005232956.14af09fc@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005232956.14af09fc@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 71ec68fb-adf8-4e89-a34a-b145d4f62725 X-Archives-Hash: 69c3374a386793cd47757b414f631fe4 --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:29:56PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:16:06 -0500 Kito wrote: > | > b) assume that you'll not have to modify ebuilds > |=20 > | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive assumption have they? >=20 > pvdabeel has for pathspec. >=20 > | > and c) > | > demand that as soon as it's available, it works for all ebuilds. > |=20 > | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive demand have they? >=20 > pvdabeel has for pathspec. You're not talking to pvdabeel right now, so kindly be quiet about=20 him. Further, don't argue the dev point, no one cares- we're discussing=20 prefix, not getting pulled into tangents of pathspec nor slams at=20 other devs. > | ICANINSTALLTO was the best idea presented, but that implies it would = =20 > | be a list of known working prefixes, which seems unrealistic. Maybe =20 > | it would be better to have portage error check that globally at the =20 > | load_config stage against a list of known stupid prefixes, =20 > | stupidprefixes=3D["/usr","/","/bin"] etc. etc. >=20 > The plan was to have ICANINSTALLTO=3D"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=20 about prefixed, but it's as good of a name as any other (arbitrary, in=20 other words). ~harring --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRFlwvdBxRoA3VU0RAgnEAJwIMuRqiJf7EPsWM3izA4neX2d3AgCgjQhy s3Fx2lTywakUT7ehEANJth4= =4wT0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ-- -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list