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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild bikeshedding
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:44:07
Message-Id: 50F710FC.6070200@gentoo.org
1 All:
2
3 Time for some bikeshedding :)
4
5 For the gentoolkit-0.3.0 series, I removed any filtering of emerge
6 options set in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPS for revdep-rebuild. This has caused
7 some people to complain because some of the flags in their
8 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS are not suitable for a revdep-rebuild run.
9
10 I am not going to go back to filtering any of the emerge options,
11 however, I just added support for a make.conf variable called
12 REVDEP_DEFAULT_OPTS which currently gets appended to the list of options
13 after the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and before the command line options.
14
15 Here is where the bikeshedding begins:
16 1. What variable name do we prefer? REVDEP_DEFAULT_OPTS or
17 REVDEP_EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
18 2. What behavior do we want? append to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS or replace
19 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
20
21 Regards,
22 Paul

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild bikeshedding Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild bikeshedding Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild bikeshedding Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>