On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:20:13PM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote:

> I wasn't suggesting that. I just said that a) instead of first
> installing stuff in e.g. /usr/share/doc and then deleting it, portage
> would just not install stuff there in the first place,

I think here's a misunderstanding. The "install" in the mail to which
you replied means the "install" step of portage, not the "merge" step.
Portage should not stop any ebuild from putting stuff into ${D}/whatever,
but it can remove the doumentation directories before doing the "merge"
step which moves it to the place your are talking about.
	
> I never said anything about modifying any ebuilds.

"not installing" implies this. But since you seem to mean "not merging",
I don't think there's a problem with that.

Bye, Patrick