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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:15:10
Message-Id: 1001337296.29359.15.camel@zoidberg
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] hardcoded PATHS in .ebuild by Martin Schlemmer
1 m_ 2001-09-24 klockan 15.07 skrev Martin Schlemmer:
2 > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:58, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:25, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
4 > > > Hi!
5 > > >
6 > > > I've brought up this issue before. The main reason for this is to be
7 > > > able to say, I want all GNOME-stuff in /usr/local/gnome instead of
8 > > > /opt/gnome (for example).
9 > > >
10 > > > However if we decide to move everything to /usr this won't be an issue
11 > > > anymore.
12 > > >
13 > >
14 > > I know about that issue .. not entirely what i meant. Rather, if a app
15 > > need to use the base dir for gnome, /opt/gnome as of current, why
16 > > hardcode it into the ebuild as /opt/gnome, but not use $GNOME_PATH
17 > > instead? If gnome need to be relocated in future, it will be much
18 > > easier ....
19 > >
20 >
21 > So maybe i should read better the first time ... but I still think it is
22 > a better practice now that all have to be changed anyhow ...
23
24 I agree with you. However I don't think that it will be needed because
25 you don't have to give GNOME_PATH when everything is located in /usr.
26
27 I'm waiting for the document about this rellocation to /usr to be
28 finished before starting to move stuff.
29
30 Regards,
31 Mikael Hallendal
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35 Mikael Hallendal
36 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
37 CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden