On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I'm glad to see some reach-out here and taking responsibility for > decisions. However, what does the QA team have to say about systems that > want games on other media (such as an SSD or separate HDD), or wish to > restrict the use of games on their system to certain accounts? > > Bumping EAPI won't magically allow those to happen, and removing the > eclass *will* break those use cases. What's the "blessed" way to do those?
Per-package install locations? Sounds like a possible future EAPI feature? Of course, the real trick is when packages need to interact and the files aren't in a fixed location. In general right now I don't think we have a blessed way to install stuff in non-standard locations. Obviously you can fork an ebuild and modify it, but if somebody wants to install KDE in /usr/kde/ and X11 into /usr/X11R6/ there isn't a clean way to do it. -- Rich
