On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:01 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 04-01-2010 16:26:26 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > Your diff basically has 1) STARTDIR/UNIXMODE filtering and 2) setting of
> > > Prefix vars, which zmedico (Portage maintainer) believes are
> > > unnecessary.
> > > 
> > > is 1) in any way relevant?  I can imagine 2) to be related, since we
> > > added it at some point as it was necessary.
> > 
> > UNIXMODE is for FreeMiNT, so that will need adding. But if I remove any
> > part of STARTDIR then things fall apart.
> > 
> > Also, I've tried removing the prefix var settings for EROOT and ROOT and
> > things also fall apart without it. I'll be trying EPREFIX when I get
> > chance.
> 
> I'm analyzing this with the commits made here, and this is what I've
> noticed sofar:
> 
> 
> r15113 | grobian | 2009-12-18 09:22:04 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009) | 1 line
> 
> Remove redundant EPREFIX setting since it's already initialized earlier
> in the config constructor. (r15044)
> 
> This is only the self["EPREFIX"] = EPREFIX for portageq bit.
> 
> I can't find the other in the separate commits, but I see it in the full
> diff :S

Is there anything I can do to help what's needs to happen ?

At the moment, all I can see is that these changes need reverting to
unbreak things.

Alan.