Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-01-25, o godz. 11:13:38
Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> napisał(a):

> It seems having XDG variables like XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in the
> environment when calling emerge has a tendency to cause sandbox
> violations. For example, see the bugs blocking bug 499202.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499202
>
> If you grep for XDG_CONFIG_HOME in the eclass directory, you can see
> that several eclasses work around this by setting
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${T}" or "${T}/.config".
>
> gnome2-utils.eclass takes it a step further and creates empty
> directories for several other XDG variables.
>
> Is this something we can/should consolidate into some central place?
> Or should I just copy/paste something into distutils-r1.eclass?

I'd say portage should kill that as part of sanitizing the environment.
There's no point in reproducing it in random eclasses.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny