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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. /usr/local
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:54:02
Message-Id: 20040715225359.GE4226@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. /usr/local by Renat Golubchyk
1 Renat Golubchyk wrote: [Thu Jul 15 2004, 05:32:11PM EDT]
2 > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:00:08 -0700
3 > Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > That's a blatant bug -- please file a bug report asap
6 > >
7 > > Gentoo is NOT to touch /usr/local at all in any official ebuilds.
8 > > Under NO circumstances are we to do so (the only exception, I suppose
9 > > is in the initial creation of the directory structure in baselayout,
10 > > but that is NOT a slippery slope :P).
11
12 Looking at the latest ebuild it seems that there's some sed-fu being
13 done to set PREFIX=/usr instead of PREFIX=/usr/local. My guess is that
14 the ebuild author's sed-fu failed (or you're looking at an earlier
15 ebuild; I didn't check).
16
17 Best,
18 g2boojum
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Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. /usr/local Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>