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@ 2002-04-16 19:06 99% Adam Voigt
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From: Adam Voigt @ 2002-04-16 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
I was just curious if adding the feature of custom prefixes on emerge's (the equivalent of --prefix on a configure)
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
serious issues with this feature request. As I understand it, all it would really entail is checking if the enviorment
variable PREFIX is set and if it is switch PREFIX for /usr or whatever the path is in each ebuild. So for instance, if
you were installing mysql if PREFIX = "/usr/mysql" then everything would be set under that directory, so there would
be /usr/mysql/var for the actual db, etc. Is this correct?
And if it is, does this mean any package which supports custom prefix must have it's ebuild, hand edited? If this
is correct I wouldn't mind going through and at least starting on some of more popular packages to add custom
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
the problem.
Thanks,
Adam Voigt
adam.voigt@cryptocomm.com
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