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From: "François-Xavier Carton" <fx.carton@yahoo.fr>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Building packages in different prefix without rebuilding system packages
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 07:02:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200514050205.GA15477@pc-fx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20200514050205.GA15477.ref@pc-fx

Hi,

Is there a way of installing packages in a different prefix while still
using system packages? I've tried setting EPREFIX, however doing that
will install all dependencies in the prefix, even if there are already
installed in the system.

I was hoping to install some packages in user directories, but I also
don't want to duplicate the packages installed globally. For example,
most packages eventually depend on gcc, which I definitely don't want to
compile twice. So ideally, only dependencies that are not installed
globally should be pulled in.

I was not able to find a way of doing that, but I feel like it shouldn't
be too hard, because EPREFIX almost does what I want. Does someone know
if it's possible without too much tweaking?

Thanks,
-François-Xavier


       reply	other threads:[~2020-05-14  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200514050205.GA15477.ref@pc-fx>
2020-05-14  5:02 ` François-Xavier Carton [this message]
2020-05-14  5:13   ` [gentoo-user] Building packages in different prefix without rebuilding system packages Dale
2020-05-14  8:07     ` Michael
2020-05-14  8:37       ` François-Xavier Carton
2020-05-14  8:46     ` Pengcheng Xu
2020-05-14 10:07       ` Neil Bothwick
2020-05-14 10:17         ` Pengcheng Xu
2020-05-14 11:55           ` Neil Bothwick
2020-05-14 13:09             ` Pengcheng Xu
2020-05-14 13:26             ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-05-14 22:32               ` François-Xavier Carton
2020-05-15 10:53   ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Haubenwallner
2020-05-15 21:44     ` François-Xavier Carton

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