Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] creating a prefix.eclass?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 11-03-2009 12:20:58 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:08 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 10-03-2009 17:34:45 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > On 10-03-2009 17:17:00 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > > Maybe indeed you're right, eprefixify is just an utility to help fixing
> > > > package's code and should not be part of an EAPI.
> > >
> > > I think I'll draft up a proposal tonight.
> >
> > Please review my first shot at prefix.eclass
>
> Hmm, 'use' in global scope?

use prefix will generate some QA warning to say the least, as non-Prefix
portage doesn't know about it.

> Eventually, when one of EPREFIX/EROOT/ED is *unset*, set all of them,
> because we for sure do not have prefix-portage then, user might have set
> one of them by hand - somehow like:
>
>         if [[ ${EPREFIX+yes}${EROOT+we}${ED+can} != "yeswecan" ]]; then
>             export EPREFIX=""
>             export EROOT=${ROOT}
>             export ED=${D}
>         fi

Good suggestion, feel free to check it in.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level