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David Leverton posted on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:04:33 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:48:03 Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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>> To quote: |
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>> "FEATURES is a portage specific package manager configuration variable |
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>> not specified in PMS and cannot reliably be used in ebuilds or |
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>> eclasses." |
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> This has been the Portage team's position for years, since long before |
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> there were PMS and other package managers. See |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82513#c16 for example. |
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Indeed, that comment is from 2005, but I've been around since 2004 and |
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remember no other position on FEATURES, ever. There are others who |
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predate me. Idle question, when was FEATURES introduced as a portage |
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variable? |
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Of course, one way to end the debate would be for portage to unset the |
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variable before calling ebuild.sh, on environment pollution grounds... |
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Given the history of (ab)use, there'd be solid reason to do that. Maybe |
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I should file a bug... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |