At 11 August, 2003 Adam Scriven wrote: > What I'd like to have happen is, emerge downloads and unpacks the source > as usual, but it then treats that source as if it were in a read-only > heirarchy. > Therefore, it would put all the files it creates for my system (config files, > object files, final binaries etc.) into a directory of my choosing. > > I understand it's possible to do with make (I'm not sure HOW, I haven't gotten > there yet). I had personally never heard of it, and the friend who told me > about it seemed rather shocked. Apparently it's used a lot in professional > (as in for money, not knocking the professionalism of linux) programming > environments, at least that has been his experience.
This is really a package-specific thing. Since emerge is just building packages from the source, using the makefiles that come with them, you'd have to change each package individually to do what you're asking. Anyway, all the packages on Gentoo ought to already work just fine as they are. If you decide to write your own program, you *can* arrange your files this way, but trying to force this system onto existing packages would cause many more problems than it would fix. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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