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* Julio M. Merino Vidal, Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:44:08 +0200:
> [snip]
> 
> The last solution, the one I'm proposing, is the following: make each
> package install itself in its own depot directory.  But, for packages
> that search for files in shared directories (pkgconfig, in this example),
> add a patch that changes the path where files are searched.  Instead of
> hardcoding the path value in the binary, the program should check the
> value of an env variable (PKG_VIEWBASE) and look for files there.
> I.e., pkgconfig could use ${PKG_VIEWBASE}/lib/pkgconfig to search its
> files.  (We'd make it fallback to the default view if the variable is
> unset).

I vote for this solution, but have a minor concern.  Many packages
already have such an env variable (e.g. PKG_CONFIG_PATH of pkgconfig).
Then wouldn't it be better to use it, instead of adding a patch to
teach PKG_VIEWBASE, especially when we create wrapper scripts to hide
PKG_VIEWBASE?

Other than that, I prefer this solution and I'm willing to help.

-- 
Min Sik Kim

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