On 2012-08-17, at 11:00 PM, "Gregory M. Turner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It has come to my attention that gentoo supports "relative" ROOT, which is to
> say that, by design, portage will act as though (in bash terms):
>
> ROOT
>
> equals
>
> "${PWD}/${ROOT}"
>
> when (again in bash terms):
>
> [[ $ROOT != /* ]]
>
> at the moment execution crosses the boundary between a non-portage program
> and a portage program. For example, I ran the following from a bash-prompt
> with PWD=/tmp in a portage-2.2 ~amd64 environment:
>
> greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ mkdir foo
> greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ ROOT=foo portageq envvar ROOT
> /tmp/foo/
>
> Question: do we really want this behavior?
>
> I have reason to believe that almost nobody uses this feature (namely,
> gcc-config and binutils-config are both broken under it for ages and nobody
> filed a bug or fixed it: see bugzilla #431104).
>
> Does /anybody/ use this feature? If not, I'd suggest that the portage team
> might ask itself whether the benefits of continuing to maintain it are
> greater than the hassle and potential for error it facilitates.
>
> Just my 2c,
>
> -gmt
Sorry for the HTML response... am on the road.
I don't use the feature but I would fully expect said behavior. ie, going with
the example above I would expect that I'd need the / in front for the path to
not be relative.
>
