Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

[Paul Sebastian Ziegler <psz@observed.de>]

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I thought about that too, but wouldn't that more or less create a new
"system". For instance if I emerged a library (say libpcap) with
ROOT="/libs" and then tried to emerge wireshark (which depends on
libpcap) with ROOT="/analysis" I think that wireshark would fail to
start due to "missing" libraries. (Or it would pull in libpcap once more
and merge it into /analysis thus resulting in several installed copies
at once).

Please correct me if I should be mistaken.

Thanks for the help
Paul

Joshua Doll schrieb:
> Would ROOT="" in the emerge command work?
> 
> --Joshua Doll
> 
> 
> Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote:
> Hy everybody,
> 
> can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory
> of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild?
> Let me clarify:
> I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be
> located under /something/*.
> I understand that the ebuilds contain directives of where to install the
> files through src_install(). However I don't believe it would be a good
> idea to edit ebuilds manually since it would lead to breakages during
> emerge --sync.
> So is there some file I can edit to change the install directory for a
> certain package?
> For example like setting
> wireshark /wifi
> firefox /stuff
> baselayout /
> (this is just a rough sketch of what I'm looking for.)
> 
> All help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Many Greetings
> Paul
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