[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:

> The thing with ${HOME} is that it should not be a directory where
> XDG compliants tools should be able to store anything permanent
> while building since this would affect consecutive builds (say
> gobject-introspection, gstreamer registry, etc).

> This is why it is set to ${T} in gnome2-utils.eclass.

HOME is as temporary as T during build time. PMS says: "The full path
to an appropriate temporary directory for use by any programs invoked
by the ebuild that may read or modify the home directory."

With Portage, HOME will point to:
${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/homedir/

Ulrich