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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:45:25
Message-Id: 4505A005.4040105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/ by Donnie Berkholz
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4 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > Zac Medico wrote:
6 >> We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could
7 >> be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as
8 >> being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would
9 >> make one pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another
10 >> pass to process the rest of the variables.
11 >
12 > How badly will this break someone's system when they accidentally rm -rf
13 > /etc/env.d and try to reinstall all the apps that put something there?
14
15 It shouldn't behave any differently than it already does. The old
16 values will have to remain hard-coded, at least for a while. Moving
17 forward, packages that install files in /etc/env.d/ should include
18 COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED definitions as necessary for the
19 other variables that they define.
20
21 Zac
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