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Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:53:04 +0100 as excerpted: |
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>> > Next to that, it is part of the Prefix team's job to make sure that |
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>> > whatever is installed, does not reference the host system when this |
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>> > is not absolutely necessary. |
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>> Could you give some examples of when it is absolutely necessary? |
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> Simple example is perl. If you install a script, for instance ekeyword, |
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> then it is important that this script doesn't say '#!/usr/bin/perl' in |
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> its shebang. "/usr/bin/perl" may simply not exist, but more importantly |
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> it is not the perl that Portage has installed and also installed all |
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> required dependencies for. Hence, ekeyword should be installed such |
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> that it references the perl from the offset installation, e.g. |
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> "/home/joe/gentoo/usr/bin/perl". |
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> "/bin/sh" is another nice one. |
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At least here, that it would ordinarily be best to reference the prefix |
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system was taken for granted, so when it's "absolutely necessary" to |
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reference the host system is the interesting case, and how I parsed the |
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request. You provided examples of just the opposite, the case I (and |
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evidently Denis, if I parsed the request correctly) assumed to be normal, |
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where referencing the prefix is strongly desirable or "absolutely |
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necessary". |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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