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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:29:56PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:16:06 -0500 Kito <kito@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > b) assume that you'll not have to modify ebuilds |
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> | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive assumption have they? |
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> pvdabeel has for pathspec. |
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> | > and c) |
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> | > demand that as soon as it's available, it works for all ebuilds. |
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> | I don't think anyone(devs) has made this naive demand have they? |
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> pvdabeel has for pathspec. |
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You're not talking to pvdabeel right now, so kindly be quiet about |
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him. |
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Further, don't argue the dev point, no one cares- we're discussing |
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prefix, not getting pulled into tangents of pathspec nor slams at |
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other devs. |
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> | ICANINSTALLTO was the best idea presented, but that implies it would |
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> | be a list of known working prefixes, which seems unrealistic. Maybe |
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> | it would be better to have portage error check that globally at the |
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> | load_config stage against a list of known stupid prefixes, |
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> | stupidprefixes=["/usr","/","/bin"] etc. etc. |
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> The plan was to have ICANINSTALLTO="root home prefixed" or somesuch. |
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> The name isn't particularly clear on that... |
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See email naming it as domain. Home being a later target; not sure |
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about prefixed, but it's as good of a name as any other (arbitrary, in |
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other words). |
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~harring |
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