Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:27:40
Message-Id: 43E65AC9.9080003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] env pollution by Chris PeBenito
1 Chris PeBenito wrote:
2 > I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental
3 > variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the
4 > packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple
5 > enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we really want to
6 > work to fix polluted environments? I can't help but think that is not
7 > my bug, but instead (apparently) kth-krb's fault for polluting the env
8 > (the vars are seemingly worthless man and info pages paths).
9 >
10 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47486
11 > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121663
12
13 Particularly because those variables don't even work -- should be
14 MANPATH and INFOPATH, not MANDIR and INFODIR.

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