Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Prefixed Emerge's

[Adam Voigt]

Well I was thinking of making the original prefix the default, so
essentially if PREFIX is set then like where the default path would
be /var then the new path would be PREFIX/var, but if PREFIX is empty, then
it just goes to /var. I was debating whether like man pages should still go to the
default directory, because as much sense as it makes to make them go the default
man directory, the ./configure doesn't pay attention to where man pages are supposed
to go, it says "alright, I hope you know what your doing" and puts everything,
under your PREFIX, so that would be an absolute control type deal, but having
it set them in the default man page dir would be more helpful in 99% of cases, so
it's kind of a tossup.

Adam Voigt
adam.voigt@××××××××××.com

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:38:33 +0200, Paul de Vrieze <paul@××××××××.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 21:35, Adam Voigt wrote:
> > If you mean a override switch where an ebuild could turn off
> > allowing a custom prefix, I would think it would be as simple as at
> > the top of that ebuild setting PREFIX="", to override the
> > enviorment variable.
> >
> > Also, if you mean dependenices for each package, I would think
> > those packages would still go to there default directory (for
> > instance I don't see any reason for the gnome-lib package to go
> > anywhere but /usr/lib or wherver it needs to go, plus if they
> > really wanted to, they could just edit the /etc/ld.so.conf if they
> > know the libraries will be in a special directory).
> >
>
> I mean it the other way around. You still need to specify the original
> prefix anyway (so that docs and config files don't move as it really
> breaks things). You also want to be compatible with existing ebuilds
>
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