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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>, hanno@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/gimp-help: ChangeLog gimp-help-0.13.ebuild
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:45:14
Message-Id: 200709270233.31137.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/gimp-help: ChangeLog gimp-help-0.13.ebuild by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 05:14 Wed 26 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > if it's all common shell, it's pretty hard to hide ... you could try some
4 > > tricks like rewriting USE to __USE__ so internal code (like the `use`
5 > > function) still work, but in the end, does that really help ?
6 >
7 > I think so. It explicitly says that's private and not part of the API,
8 > and it makes accidental overwrites much more unlikely.
9
10 you cant accidentally do it now though ... there is a list of variables that
11 repoman explicitly has marked so you cant set them (and i think portage
12 declares them readonly now in the ebuild env ...)
13 -mike

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