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On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:24:29 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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> | To head off the "it's not going to work for vim-*", yah, you'll be |
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> | boned and have to install duplicate vim-* into the global prefix. |
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> | Bluntly, either you dive in and start wading through the problems |
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> | (fixing them as you go), or you sit back listening to how it's never |
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> | going to work (thus accomplishing nothing). |
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> It can be made to work, so long as you don't |
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> a) jump in without proper planning |
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Well, then lets plan, not flame. |
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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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> 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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So, lets address a) and c) since b) is a given. |
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My first question would be how to identify ebuilds that respect $ |
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{prefix}? |
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A separate profile/keyword seems wrong. |
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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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--Kito |
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