Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

[Zac Medico]

On 07/01/2012 12:20 AM, Duncan wrote:
> * Glibc's override is unfortunately broken in one specific case: binpkgs.
> The binpkg must have been built with the override (I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING=1
> or whatever) set, or it won't work.

You can always override environment variables (even for binary/installed
packages) by setting them in /etc/portage/bashrc (or in a per-package
bashrc in /etc/portage/env/$CATEGORY/$PN,$PF...).
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Thanks,
Zac