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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:46:04
Message-Id: 20060210003847.53e9053c@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables by Alec Warner
1 On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:26:11 -0500 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Assuming the CHOST variable is 'safe' is not a good thing, users can
4 | over-ride this variable. Can you specify some behavior when it's set
5 | to something bogus ( invalid form ) or something thats not in the
6 | mapping?
7
8 Users that override CHOST to something outside of one of the safe forms
9 (or at all, on many archs) won't be able to compile anything anyway.
10
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