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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2019-07-29 17:23:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2019-07-29 17:23:01 +0200 |
| commit | 38cd722865b60f901f7616884a44a84d96ea9a0b (patch) | |
| tree | 8a45195865d08419a172afce7c51205573e84179 | |
| parent | Recognise "live" as token in PROPERTIES. (diff) | |
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ebuild-env-vars.tex: Clarify trailing slash rule.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | ebuild-env-vars.tex | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-env-vars.tex b/ebuild-env-vars.tex index 660d17b..ae8bd7d 100644 --- a/ebuild-env-vars.tex +++ b/ebuild-env-vars.tex @@ -466,8 +466,9 @@ set, though. \label{sec:trailing-slash} Unless specified otherwise, the paths provided through package manager variables do not end with -a trailing slash and cannot be empty. A few exceptions to that rule are listed -in table~\ref{tab:trailing-slash} along with applicable EAPIs. +a trailing slash. Consequently, the system root directory will be represented by the empty string. +A few exceptions to this rule are listed in table~\ref{tab:trailing-slash} along with applicable +EAPIs. For EAPIs where those variables are defined to always end with a trailing slash, the package manager guarantees that a trailing slash will always be appended to the path in question. If the path |