Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] acct-user.eclass: Support ACCT_USER_ID override

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:05 AM Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:02:12 +0100
> Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a specific reason why we want to support dynamic variables
> > (ACCT_USER_$foo) at all?
> >
> > Isn't package.env support enough, i.e. use ACCT_USER_ID from environment
> > if set (which we should detect and log, maybe this will require a
> > different namespace for the variables at all to be able to differentiate
> > between values set by acct-* ebuild and user override)?
> >
> > Of course this won't allow something like `ACCT_USER_ID=42 emerge
> > <package which will pull in multiple acct-user/*>` but I am not sure if
> > this is an implementation goal.
>
> This is so ACCT_USER_$foo can be set in make.conf, and not have to
> be specified as an environment variable whenever portage is run. This
> helps when automated systems are building Gentoo images or systems.
>

Not sure I follow. Whether your automation sets a variable in
/etc/portage/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.env; it's basically the
same problem space; no?

-A