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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:39:44 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100 |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 |
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> > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} |
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> > > > always ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording |
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> > > > was enforced by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing |
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> > > > the ebuilds...) yet it didn't ever get really widespread. |
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> > > |
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> > > Should ROOT usually be empty then? |
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> > Considering its use, probably yes. |
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> > |
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> > ${ROOT}/usr/bin/foo |
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> > ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo |
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> > ${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo |
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> > |
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> > All seem clean and consistent to me. |
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> How many things test whether ROOT=/ ? I seem to recall that being |
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> fairly common, back when something accidentally set it to //. |
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Yes, that sucks a fair bit. There are many ebuilds doing that, and most |
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of those ebuilds append additional slash after it anyway... we really |
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suck at consistency. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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