On 26-11-2009 10:01:24 +0000, Duncan wrote: > > required dependencies for. Hence, ekeyword should be installed such > > that it references the perl from the offset installation, e.g. > > "/home/joe/gentoo/usr/bin/perl". > > > > "/bin/sh" is another nice one. > > At least here, that it would ordinarily be best to reference the prefix > system was taken for granted, so when it's "absolutely necessary" to > reference the host system is the interesting case, and how I parsed the > request. You provided examples of just the opposite, the case I (and > evidently Denis, if I parsed the request correctly) assumed to be normal, > where referencing the prefix is strongly desirable or "absolutely > necessary".
I see, thanks for bringing that up. To clarify (I hope this is): Gentoo Prefix tries to be as much self-sufficient as possible, and hence applications *must* not reference the host system, unless absolutely necessary, such as for e.g. /lib/libc.so. If Gentoo Prefix would not do this, Portage's dependencies would become useless, and many uncontrollable and unpredictable errors may arise both at compile time as well as at run time. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
