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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots?
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:18:09
Message-Id: 19951.8704.849945.147852@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots? by Hans de Graaff
1 >>>>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Hans de Graaff wrote:
2
3 >> Even if it fulfills the restrictions for global variables, it is
4 >> still an abuse of the spec, because PMS defines S as follows:
5 >> "The full path to the temporary build directory, used by
6 >> src_compile, src_install etc."
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8 > I don't see how setting S violates this specification. For each ruby
9 > implementation that we build for the definition of S holds. It just
10 > has a different value for each implementation.
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12 The value of S that is assigned in global scope (i.e. the one
13 containing the wildcard) violates it.
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15 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots? Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o>