>>>>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, justin wrote: > On 18/06/11 13:18, Petteri Räty wrote: >> That approach would still write to the filesystem. With the current >> text the PM is probably allowed to set the sandbox so that writing >> is anywhere is denied.
> The reason why it would be beneficial to use is the pkg_pretend > phase is simply that the checks would run at the beginning of a > emerge and it would fail directly instead somewhere in the middle. > For a single package it won't change much but for a huge emerge it > changes the things. > But when there is no writing allowed during the pretend phase. then > the only chance is to move it to pkg_setup. I wonder if we could loosen up that requirement in PMS. In Portage at least, T seems to point to an existing directory in pkg_pretend. I don't know about the other package managers though. Ulrich
