Binaries and alternate prefix

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Apr 9 04:20:22 PDT 2009


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> If we build and distribute binaries of ports.... is there a way we can
> still allow the user to choose their prefix?

Not without doing something akin to taint analysis to track everywhere
the prefix is included in the installed files, in the general case.
Which is close enough to "no" for me.

- Josh


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