[Portland] DESTDIR support for xdg-utils

[Rex Dieter]

Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Bastian, Waldo <waldo.bastian at intel.com> wrote:

>> >Installation cannot happen in post-installation because then files
>> >would not get tracked and removed when uninstalling the package.
>>
>> Just as there is a post-intallation phase, there surely is also a
>> pre-uninstallation phase. Is there a way to associate a file dynamically
>> with the package management system on gentoo?
> 
> no, that is not possible, sorry. I do not think other packaging
> systems support this either.

FYI, rpm(-build) can use %ghost for this.

-- Rex