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authorwiz <wiz>2011-04-09 08:05:00 +0000
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@@ -1869,9 +1869,9 @@ XXX
5.3. Variables affecting the installation process
-A growing number of packages support installation into a subdirectory of
-WRKDIR. This allows a package to be built, before the actual filesystem is
-touched. DESTDIR support exists in two variations:
+Most packages support installation into a subdirectory of WRKDIR. This allows a
+package to be built, before the actual filesystem is touched. DESTDIR support
+exists in two variations:
* Basic DESTDIR support means that the package installation and packaging is
still run as root.
@@ -1879,8 +1879,9 @@ touched. DESTDIR support exists in two variations:
* Full DESTDIR support can run the complete build, installation and packaging
as normal user. Root privileges are only needed to add packages.
-To use the DESTDIR support, set USE_DESTDIR=yes to get the full support for
-packages that support it and with fallback to basic support.
+DESTDIR support is now the default. To switch back to non-DESTDIR, you can set
+USE_DESTDIR=no; this setting will be deprecated though, so it's preferable to
+convert a package to DESTDIR instead.
DESTDIR support changes the behaviour of various targets slightly. To install a
package after building it, use package-install. package and install don't do