On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 14:16 +0100, Patrick Börjesson wrote: [snip] > It seems that INSTALL_MASK works only at merge time, so that if you > build a package at one machine (with INSTALL_MASK set to f.ex. > /usr/share/doc) and install it on the same machine, you get the expected > behaviour. But the INSTALL_MASK:ed directories and their contents are > still present in the binary package since they're not filtered out until > the merge-step. So if you then want to merge this package on a different > machine, and forget to set INSTALL_MASK you still get everything > originally present under /usr/share/doc installed. > > One might argue that INSTALL_MASK should apply for > binary-package-building also, but so is not the case at the moment.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81025 -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
