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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ...
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:02:41
Message-Id: 20100104170149.GM19813@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ... by Alan Hourihane
1 On 04-01-2010 16:26:26 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
2 > > Your diff basically has 1) STARTDIR/UNIXMODE filtering and 2) setting of
3 > > Prefix vars, which zmedico (Portage maintainer) believes are
4 > > unnecessary.
5 > >
6 > > is 1) in any way relevant? I can imagine 2) to be related, since we
7 > > added it at some point as it was necessary.
8 >
9 > UNIXMODE is for FreeMiNT, so that will need adding. But if I remove any
10 > part of STARTDIR then things fall apart.
11 >
12 > Also, I've tried removing the prefix var settings for EROOT and ROOT and
13 > things also fall apart without it. I'll be trying EPREFIX when I get
14 > chance.
15
16 I'm analyzing this with the commits made here, and this is what I've
17 noticed sofar:
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20 r15113 | grobian | 2009-12-18 09:22:04 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009) | 1 line
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22 Remove redundant EPREFIX setting since it's already initialized earlier
23 in the config constructor. (r15044)
24
25 This is only the self["EPREFIX"] = EPREFIX for portageq bit.
26
27 I can't find the other in the separate commits, but I see it in the full
28 diff :S
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31 --
32 Fabian Groffen
33 Gentoo on a different level

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