On 18-10-2009 13:57:10 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi, > You know i am totaly supporting prefix but i have one point. > Why on earth portage simply does not detect the prefix enviroment is being > run > and then INTERNALY switch D->ED and other variables. It would be much easier > that way to migrate all stuff in portage instead of doing this || shebang. > Mostly when it is done by eclasses its quite cool, but when you get into > changing lots of ebuilds its quite hard for maintaining. > > Even the multilib overlay guys rather modify the portage than changing a load > of ebuilds.
Of course we would like to do that, but that was rejected for EAPI=3, so it will at least take until EAPI=4 is implemented, which is not the forseeable future, given that EAPI=3 isn't a fact yet either. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
