Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlinks in EPREFIX path
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:02:12
Message-Id: 20071107180153.GH3230@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlinks in EPREFIX path by Marshall McMullen
1 On 07-11-2007 17:58:06 +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote:
2 > Well it's not an issue for me anymore as I just exported the absolute
3 > path to avoid having problems on my system. But I wanted to report it
4 > anyhow in case you wanted to fix this in a more permanent way.
5 >
6 > I tend to agree I like the idea of leaving in a location independent
7 > system in case there is automounting, etc. So, maybe it's possible to
8 > just fix the QA check or provide a means of dynamically resolving the
9 > absolute path when you do the QA check rather than fixing the ebuild
10 > itself ?
11
12 Not really. The thing is that I think it is /too/ ugly to install into
13 the absolute path (and recognising it), while portage internally refers
14 to the logical path. Then we better move the directory in the install
15 image to the logical path before installing ;)
16
17 But thanks for taking it on list.
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21 Fabian Groffen
22 Gentoo on a different level
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