Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 13/01/2007-02:05:45(+0100): Harald van Dijk types
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:12:00PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:42:20 +0100 Harald van Dijk <truedfx@g.o>
> > | With ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-fetch, you tell it you don't want packages with
> > | RESTRICT=fetch, so portage /should/ complain regardless of whether the
> > | sources are available.
> >
> > Which is my point -- that's a stupid thing to request. A sensible thing
> > to request would be "mask anything that will require me to fetch
> > something manually".
>
> It's not a stupid thing to request to install only packages that allow
> you to emerge -e world if / gets corrupted.

Consider how portage shows an indication in the --pretend (or --ask)
output if a package requires manual fetching or if the download is
already done. You know that you have to either fetch the files or avoid
the package. With ACCEPT_RESTRICT=fetch it would have failed anyway.

Something similar could be done about userpriv. Another red letter
indicating that a package will compile as root (and the user is free to
go ahead or abort as they see fit). The letter can be green if userpriv
is not in FEATURES.

The problem I am having with RESTRICT=userpriv is that it is *silent*
about what it does. If there were some indication I would have been
happy. Anyone else feel the same way?

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