On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Göktürk Yüksek <gokt...@binghamton.edu> wrote: > Mike Gilbert: >> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses >> people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. --- >> ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 >> insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml >> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml index ef15347..6ba6379 100644 >> --- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml +++ >> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml @@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ them. <tr> >> <ti><c>ROOT</c></ti> <ti> - Path to the root directory. When >> not using <c>${D}</c>, - always prepend <c>${ROOT}</c> to the >> path. + The absolute path to the root directory into which the >> package is to be merged. + Use this when refering to installed >> files in <c>pkg_*</c> functions. + Never use this in >> <c>src_*</c> functions. </ti> </tr> <tr> >> > > Sorry for the late reply. There is actually a bug for this issue [0]. > I'll rebase the patch attached to the bug on top of yours if you have > no technical objections to the content. > > [0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144332
The expanded explanation seems useful indeed.