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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:58:05
Message-Id: 1141570377.17006.23.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) by "Patrick Börjesson"
1 On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 14:16 +0100, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
2 [snip]
3
4 > It seems that INSTALL_MASK works only at merge time, so that if you
5 > build a package at one machine (with INSTALL_MASK set to f.ex.
6 > /usr/share/doc) and install it on the same machine, you get the expected
7 > behaviour. But the INSTALL_MASK:ed directories and their contents are
8 > still present in the binary package since they're not filtered out until
9 > the merge-step. So if you then want to merge this package on a different
10 > machine, and forget to set INSTALL_MASK you still get everything
11 > originally present under /usr/share/doc installed.
12 >
13 > One might argue that INSTALL_MASK should apply for
14 > binary-package-building also, but so is not the case at the moment.
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17 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81025
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