On 11/1/05, Kito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (2) Regular users install the prefix-enabled base system into a prefix
> > (and add $PREFIX/bin, $PREFIX/sbin, etc. to .bashrc)
>
> I was thinking either they just open a shell and `source ${PREFIX}/
> etc/profile` or they can set their default shell to ${PREFIX}/bin/
> {bash,csh,zsh,whatever} which will already have a sane env with the
> prefixed paths.

'source ${PREFIX}/etc/profile'   <-- Good thinking.

> > (3) 'emerge mypackage' uses the gentoo system in $PREFIX to build
> > 'mypackage' and install in into
> > $PREFIX/regular/gentoo/path/for/the/package
>
> Thats the idea ;) Keep in mind, binary packages are a must, so there
> will be a default prefix that has to be used for both the stage
> tarballs and the binpkgs. It will still be possible for a user to
> bootstrap to a custom prefix, but I think that we shouldn't really
> support anything other than the default.

Sounds good to me.  Those picky enough to want some different prefix
could also play with symlinks.

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