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Bug 543714 - Add $@ to startprefix
Summary: Add $@ to startprefix
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 673816
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Prefix Support (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Prefix
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Reported: 2015-03-18 18:45 UTC by Richard Yao (RETIRED)
Modified: 2019-03-19 10:20 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-03-18 18:45:47 UTC 
A coworker remarked that it would be nice if startprefix had $@ so that you could do `gentoo/startprefix ${COMMAND} ...`. This would be nice feature.
Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2015-03-18 18:50:46 UTC 
Not that I'm against it, but what's the use-case here?

filosophy behind the prefix was that it would work as well when you'd call binaries from a non-Prefix-initialised environment
Comment 2 Nado 2018-07-15 15:11:09 UTC 
Some applications require environment overrides or rely on GLib schema to be installed, etc

Not all applications work well without using the startprefix script.
Comment 3 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-03-19 10:20:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 673816 ***