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On 10/05/16 16:08, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 05/08/2016 01:42 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses people. |
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>> The new description is paraphrased from PMS. |
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> The current version is bad, but the PMS version isn't great either. |
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> We really need examples for D, ROOT, ED, EROOT, and EPREFIX. |
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> When/where/why should they (not) be used? How do they compare/contrast? |
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> A lot of people just guess. Our invocation of emake DESTDIR="${D}" |
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> pretty well explains $D, but how the rest of them interact is left up to |
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> your imagination. |
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Agreed .. the devmanual doesn't expand a lot on this, and many of the |
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other ebuild variables A, S, etc and how to properly use them. |
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The 'emake' statement is part of default phases in EAPI5+ so this |
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may/should(?) not appear in newer ebuilds I would have thought, but |
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perhaps someone could clarify on this. |
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Michael. |
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