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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, freedesktop-bugs@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:35:17
Message-Id: 1391070904.6850.2.camel@kanae
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir by Ulrich Mueller
1 Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 09:29 +0100, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
2 > >>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
3 >
4 > > The thing with ${HOME} is that it should not be a directory where
5 > > XDG compliants tools should be able to store anything permanent
6 > > while building since this would affect consecutive builds (say
7 > > gobject-introspection, gstreamer registry, etc).
8 >
9 > > This is why it is set to ${T} in gnome2-utils.eclass.
10 >
11 > HOME is as temporary as T during build time. PMS says: "The full path
12 > to an appropriate temporary directory for use by any programs invoked
13 > by the ebuild that may read or modify the home directory."
14 >
15 > With Portage, HOME will point to:
16 > ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/homedir/
17 >
18
19 Very well then.
20
21 --
22 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
23 Gentoo

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