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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:01:24PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:56:45 +0000 |
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> "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o> wrote: |
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> > ROOT being a user set variable, having ROOT be an empty string by |
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> > default still does not guarantee that ROOT won't end with a |
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> > slash. Even if we change it so that it defaults to an empty string, it |
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> > won't negate the need to do ${ROOT%/}/some/path. |
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> The spec guarantees that ROOT will be non-empty and end in a slash. If |
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> Portage isn't enforcing this, file a bug. |
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Yes, but his point was this: |
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> > The only thing that would help is if PMS defined that ROOT must not |
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> > end with a slash. |
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ie, let the mangler enforce empty or a valid directory not ending in a |
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slash, which is hardly difficult, and makes ROOT easier to work with, |
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along the lines of how any shellscripter would do it, similarly to the |
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motivation for the change to D. Only with ROOT it's much more important |
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that the path is correctly-formed for cross-platform compatibility. |
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