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Bug#: 258122
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Assigned To: Gentoo Linux High-Availability Clustering Team <ha-cluster@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2009-02-08 13:24 0000 
Some notes on ROOT:

* The idea behind ROOT is that one can build a system with ROOT=/somewhere and
then chroot into it or tar up /somewhere as a system image. It is not designed
to allow the user to run /somewhere/usr/bin/foo.

* ROOT can't be used correctly in src_*, since ROOT might be different when
merging a binary package. For example, a binary package might be built with
ROOT=/ and then installed onto a system using ROOT=/somewhere.

* ROOT isn't used for library dependencies. When building, libraries, headers
etc. on / have to be used. Cross-compiling etc is done by configuring the
toolchain correctly, not by hacking ebuilds in a way that breaks binary
packages.

See also the discussion on bug #167285 for more info.
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