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On Tuesday 16 April 2002 21:06, Adam Voigt wrote: |
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> I was just curious if adding the feature of custom prefixes on |
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> emerge's (the equivalent of --prefix on a configure) would be |
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> terribly hard to do, I ask because I would like to help and don't |
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> want to bother those of you working on serious issues with this |
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> feature request. As I understand it, all it would really entail is |
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> checking if the enviorment variable PREFIX is set and if it is |
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> switch PREFIX for /usr or whatever the path is in each ebuild. So |
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> for instance, if you were installing mysql if PREFIX = "/usr/mysql" |
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> then everything would be set under that directory, so there would |
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> be /usr/mysql/var for the actual db, etc. Is this correct? And if |
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> it is, does this mean any package which supports custom prefix must |
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> have it's ebuild, hand edited? If this is correct I wouldn't mind |
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> going through and at least starting on some of more popular |
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> packages to add custom pathing's. If I am totally off base on this, |
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> I aplogize, this was just what popped into my head as a possible |
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> solution to the problem. |
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Don't forget a lot of software breaks if it is moved to unknown |
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directories, so whatever you do, make it an option that an ebuild |
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could turn on. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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