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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Use env to find python
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:55:06
Message-Id: e764a986-9f8c-3fd6-fee9-3197f0058da4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Use env to find python by Mike Gilbert
1 On 6/16/20 10:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:45 PM Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:39 AM Sid Spry <sid@××××.us> wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
7 >>>> But we know that it is in /usr/bin, so why add yet another indirection?
8 >>>>
9 >>>> Attachments:
10 >>>> * signature.asc
11 >>>
12 >>> Ah, sorry -- I forgot to note this here. If you wish to support prefix it is possible it may not be in /usr/bin. Granted I am not sure if the prefix stage3 I was using is old enough to be broken in some way, but adding this would prevent future breakage.
13 >>
14 >> The portage ebuild and the python distutils module already take care
15 >> of updating shebangs at install time.
16 >
17 > I suppose your patch might be useful if you are trying to run portage
18 > from a git checkout on a prefix system.
19 >
20
21 So, given that the ebuild updates shebangs automatically, should't we
22 optimize the default shebangs to be as flexible as possible?
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Use env to find python Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>