Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make PORTAGE_BIN_PATH settings relocatable
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:34:22
Message-Id: 20150602153419.GE23039@vapier
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make PORTAGE_BIN_PATH settings relocatable by Zac Medico
1 On 01 Jun 2015 11:49, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 06/01/2015 10:25 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > (a) just throw an error and exit when PORTAGE_BIN_PATH is not set ...
4 > > considering the current portage code points to a path where it is no longer
5 > > installed, maybe that's ok ? the recent changes to make portage install copies
6 > > for each python version is what broke it i think.
7 >
8 > I like this idea. I can't think of a reason why we should allow
9 > PORTAGE_BIN_PATH to be unset.
10
11 i'll try this in the CrOS project where we're using Gentoo/Prefix and see how it
12 goes. and then try it on my system for a while to further check it. otherwise
13 i'll go with Tim's inspired idea about symlinked wrappers.
14 -mike

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