On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200
Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200
> > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D}
> > > always ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording
> > > was enforced by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing
> > > the ebuilds...) yet it didn't ever get really widespread.
> > 
> > Should ROOT usually be empty then?
> 
> Considering its use, probably yes.
> 
>   ${ROOT}/usr/bin/foo
>   ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo
>   ${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo
> 
> All seem clean and consistent to me.

How many things test whether ROOT=/ ? I seem to recall that being
fairly common, back when something accidentally set it to //.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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