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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:56:03
Message-Id: 1391035996.29447.0.camel@kanae
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment by "Steven J. Long"
1 Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 13:11 +0000, Steven J. Long a écrit :
2 > Alec Warner wrote:
3 > > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to change the
4 > > behavior of *portage* now; rather than waiting for a new EAPI. If an ebuild
5 > > needs to define EAPI=eapi-next to 'correctly' use XDG_*, well that is
6 > > someone else's can of worms.
7 >
8 > Agreed: portage can clear those vars from the env as mgorny stated on the bug,
9 > and an xdg.eclass (or w/e) can setup good defaults for packages which need
10 > them. Presumably it'd be inherited by gnome and kde eclasses, for example,
11 > so most people wouldn't even see it.
12
13 Exactly.
14
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16 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
17 Gentoo