On 18-10-2009 14:31:15 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > 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.
I was just informed that it is also a possibility to do an EAPI bump just for these variables, which would mean we can avoid replicating setting ED and EROOT in ebuilds. The suggestion was to just introduce EAPI=3 with these variables, and making everything which is scheduled for current EAPI=3 just EAPI=4. I was told we could quite quickly have a Portage in the tree that would set ED and EROOT for EAPI=3 that way. Are there any objections to this? If not, I'd like to put this on the agenda for the next council meeting. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
