On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:01 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 30-10-2006 09:49:22 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 20:35 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > A secondary issue that came out of this is, why do we install in /usr in > > > prefix actually? I think for no particular reason, other then that > > > portage is designed to work like that. (I can live with that.) > > > > Back to the roots again? > > > > It is not portage (especially not prefix-portage) being designed to work > > like that, but the ebuilds all over Gentoo Linux. > > Yep, and it's hard-coded all over the place, so if you don't mind, I > rather not change this state. In the end I like it that I have a shadow > of the real system in my prefix, looks more cool :)
Yep. > > Or do you have a preference for a semi-variable AFFIX? No, not any more. It was just to conform "purity of teachings" (is this bad english ?). I more like EPREFIX,EROOT,ED we have now, and am happy with having /usr. /haubi/ -- Michael Haubenwallner SALOMON Automation GmbH Forschung & Entwicklung A-8114 Friesach bei Graz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.salomon.at No HTML/MIME please, see http://expita.com/nomime.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
