From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 09:19:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9592106566B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) Received: from smtp5.netcologne.de (smtp5.netcologne.de [194.8.194.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC068FC14 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llea.celt.neu (xdsl-213-196-245-56.netcologne.de [213.196.245.56]) by smtp5.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C711540CB41; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:00:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B28A1E7.70301@laposte.net> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:01:27 +0100 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090919 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <20091214151318.GC1016@wicklow.lan> <4B274487.7080505@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Baptiste Daroussin , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New version of the fakeroot patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:19:48 -0000 Hi, Warren Block wrote: > A suggestion: USE_FAKE is not descriptive. It doesn't tell what is fake > or what happens. I'm not sure fake is the even the right word. > > USE_FAKEROOT is better, but still ambiguous: it's not really fake, and > "root" can mean too many things. > > I guess what I'm trying to say is consider a name that describes what is > accomplished, not how it works. The Macports system offers a functionality analogous to the one described by the OP. In Macports' Guide this functionality is described so: «Understanding the destroot phase is critical to understanding MacPorts, because, unlike some port systems, MacPorts "stages" an installation into an intermediate location —not the final file destination.» Maybe this can help to find a more explicit name than «fake». -- Cheers, Michaël