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Mike Gilbert:
> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses
> people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. ---
> ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3
> insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml index ef15347..6ba6379 100644
> --- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml +++
> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml @@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ them. <tr>
> <ti><c>ROOT</c></ti> <ti> - Path to the root directory. When
> not using <c>${D}</c>, - always prepend <c>${ROOT}</c> to the
> path. + The absolute path to the root directory into which the
> package is to be merged. + Use this when refering to installed
> files in <c>pkg_*</c> functions. + Never use this in
> <c>src_*</c> functions. </ti> </tr> <tr>
>
Sorry for the late reply. There is actually a bug for this issue [0].
I'll rebase the patch attached to the bug on top of yours if you have
no technical objections to the content.
[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144332
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