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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:55:22
Message-Id: 76F637E0-58E7-4920-A120-BC25E9A8510F@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item by Thomas Deutschmann
1 > On 25 Nov 2021, at 17:07, Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 2021-11-25 18:01, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
4 >>> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643
5 >> Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql, elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead?
6 >> It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random variable is not even prefixed with PORTAGE_ or anything, meaning it could be taken out of shell and meant for entirely different thing.
7 >
8 > Yeah, sounds like the I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING thing which you end up having enabled globally for various reasons.
9
10 Just like updating in a cron job is a not-great idea, setting this globally and not per-package via /etc/portage/env sounds rather cavalier.

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