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I was just curious if adding the feature of custom prefixes on emerge's (the equivalent of --prefix on a configure) |
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would be terribly hard to do, I ask because I would like to help and don't want to bother those of you working on |
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serious issues with this feature request. As I understand it, all it would really entail is checking if the enviorment |
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variable PREFIX is set and if it is switch PREFIX for /usr or whatever the path is in each ebuild. So for instance, if |
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you were installing mysql if PREFIX = "/usr/mysql" 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? |
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And if it is, does this mean any package which supports custom prefix must have it's ebuild, hand edited? If this |
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is correct I wouldn't mind going through and at least starting on some of more popular packages to add custom |
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pathing's. If I am totally off base on this, I aplogize, this was just what popped into my head as a possible solution to |
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the problem. |
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Thanks, |
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Adam Voigt |
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