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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:00:21
Message-Id: 1001336349.15272.18.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild by Mikael Hallendal
1 On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:25, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > I've brought up this issue before. The main reason for this is to be
5 > able to say, I want all GNOME-stuff in /usr/local/gnome instead of
6 > /opt/gnome (for example).
7 >
8 > However if we decide to move everything to /usr this won't be an issue
9 > anymore.
10 >
11
12 I know about that issue .. not entirely what i meant. Rather, if a app
13 need to use the base dir for gnome, /opt/gnome as of current, why
14 hardcode it into the ebuild as /opt/gnome, but not use $GNOME_PATH
15 instead? If gnome need to be relocated in future, it will be much
16 easier ....
17
18 Greetings,
19 MS

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