Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: prefix.eclass

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>:
>
>> On 12:59 Fri 27 Mar     , Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> > This eclass facilitates in some of the needs of the Gentoo Prefix
>> > project.  For now it provides the 'eprefixify' function, which is
>> > often used in Gentoo Prefix ebuilds to incorporate the used offset
>> > prefix into files.
>>
>> It's great to see you moving toward folding this back into the main
>> tree! My only comment is that eprefixify could really use a better
>> name because that one sounds really awkward. How about doprefix, or
>> something else?
>
>  To install a prefix file?  Like doman, dobin. :)

Not that I want to start an argument over a function name but it helps
if you understand what eprefixify() does.

eprefixify simply does a 's/@GENTOO_PORTAGE_EPREFIX@/$EPREFIX/' where
EPREFIX is expanded to its abs value. The common use case for
eprefixify is on installed scripts where you should be able to run the
program in a prefix shell or not. (ie. you should be able to run it
without EPREFIX being set in your env - this is true of all prefix
executables)

So, no, we do not exactly feel like a do* name is appropriate because
this function is not installing anything. In a sense, we made
'eprefix' a verb and that really seems to make sense to new devs and
new users.

-Jeremy