Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: don't copy /var/log/emerge.log into /etc

[Jason Stubbs]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 02:43, Lisa Seelye wrote:
(B> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:38 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
(B> > The $ROOT variable allows ebuilds to be installed out of the current
(B> > root. As a result of this all operations on files that ebuilds perform
(B> > should be using the $ROOT variable as the root, and not "/". The remark
(B> > that things work without $ROOT fits most likely with not fully
(B> > understanding $ROOT
(B>
(B> Is $ROOT mentioned in Portage documentation at all in a way that
(B> describes how ebuilds should handle cases where $ROOT != "/"?
(B
(BSimple. Never assume that the root is "/". If you are working outside of ${D} 
(Bthen you should be working in ${ROOT}. Make sense?
(B
(BRegards,
(BJason Stubbs
(B
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