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From: Nathan <nathan.stocks@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] The road ahead?
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:55:53
Message-Id: 96c9d6a80511010855h2f869d1qd2a6a9927f2c0efc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] The road ahead? by Kito
1 On 11/1/05, Kito <kito@g.o> wrote:
2 > > (2) Regular users install the prefix-enabled base system into a prefix
3 > > (and add $PREFIX/bin, $PREFIX/sbin, etc. to .bashrc)
4 >
5 > I was thinking either they just open a shell and `source ${PREFIX}/
6 > etc/profile` or they can set their default shell to ${PREFIX}/bin/
7 > {bash,csh,zsh,whatever} which will already have a sane env with the
8 > prefixed paths.
9
10 'source ${PREFIX}/etc/profile' <-- Good thinking.
11
12 > > (3) 'emerge mypackage' uses the gentoo system in $PREFIX to build
13 > > 'mypackage' and install in into
14 > > $PREFIX/regular/gentoo/path/for/the/package
15 >
16 > Thats the idea ;) Keep in mind, binary packages are a must, so there
17 > will be a default prefix that has to be used for both the stage
18 > tarballs and the binpkgs. It will still be possible for a user to
19 > bootstrap to a custom prefix, but I think that we shouldn't really
20 > support anything other than the default.
21
22 Sounds good to me. Those picky enough to want some different prefix
23 could also play with symlinks.
24
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