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>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:45:54 +0100 |
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> David Seifert <soap@g.o> wrote: |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586416 |
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> yep, that's about tracking access to the dir not to the variable |
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> itself |
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Which is what is intended. As I have already explained twice, the rule |
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was loosened, in order to allow PATCHES assignment from FILESDIR in |
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global scope. |
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And yes, this is a flaw in the council-approved EAPI 6. Mistakes |
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happen, and nobody noticed this one in the four weeks between posting |
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the EAPI 6 patches to gentoo-dev-announce for review [1] and their |
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approval by the council. |
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So the alternatives are now to either enforce the old rules and forbid |
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any access to the FILESDIR *variable* in global scope, or to fix the |
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spec retroactively. I believe that the latter is the lesser evil here, |
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especially when package managers are already compliant with it. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/cf763bcb2c72d0efb820f9739676fc88 |
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