13 Aug
2007
13 Aug
'07
9:40 p.m.
2007/8/13, Matthias Schwarzott zzam@gentoo.org:
The ebuilds do this for example to satisfy some security by using a sandbox for compiling and installing programs. make install then uses some temporary image directory. After that the content gets merged to the live system. (Also preserving configuration files in that process, ...)
Ah okay, now its clear to me, thank you.
Regargs, Joachim.