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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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ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- |
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1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml |
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index ef15347..6ba6379 100644 |
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--- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml |
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+++ b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml |
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@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ them. |
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<tr> |
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<ti><c>ROOT</c></ti> |
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<ti> |
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- Path to the root directory. When not using <c>${D}</c>, |
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- always prepend <c>${ROOT}</c> to the path. |
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+ The absolute path to the root directory into which the package is to be merged. |
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+ Use this when refering to installed files in <c>pkg_*</c> functions. |
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+ Never use this in <c>src_*</c> functions. |
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</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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