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From: Grobian <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] some portage-prefix patches
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:13:43
Message-Id: 20060801141244.GI9359@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] some portage-prefix patches by exg@gentoo.org
1 exg, thanks for looking into this. One thing I can answer:
2
3 On 01-08-2006 15:06:59 +0200, exg@g.o wrote:
4 > > [03-eprefix-function.patch] (normal)
5 > > Well, eprefix() was not yet present in 2.1.14, but may be already
6 > > somewhere in svn (if it exists somewhere).
7 > > To get this yet trivial implementation work, [10-portageq-root.patch] is
8 > > required.
9 >
10 > What is a constant function that always returns the value of EPREFIX if
11 > the input pkg is in the vdb useful for?
12
13 It's simply a preparation for multi-prefix support, e.g.
14 eprefix myapplication
15 that would allow to have a --with-mylib=$(eprefix sys-libs/mylib) in
16 your configure or something.
17 At least that was the cool idea we once had, iirc.
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21 Fabian Groffen
22 Gentoo for Mac OS X Project
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