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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:55:13
Message-Id: 4F1401D0.7060906@gentoo.org
1 People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like
2 SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping").
3
4 Example here: <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6915550#6915550>
5
6 What do you think about adding list of variables in make.conf to emerge
7 --info ? I know we can always ask for the make.conf, but it either
8 requires asking for a large amount of info up front, or increases the
9 number of round-trips (emerge --info looks normal, ask for make.conf).

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