> Having those symlinks, for portage there's no more need to have distinct > prefixes for packages, as their executables/libs/headers end up in the > common prefix, and configure continues to find them even if not > specified by the ebuild... > But sure, stow-users should already have found some pitfalls. >
Agreed. And for the Gentoo-MacOSX case in a pure root PREFIX="/" the symlink would (attempt to) overwrite the actual executable. Regards Dirk -- [email protected] mailing list
