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On 1/17/12 6:35 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 01/16/2012 02:54 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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>> People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like |
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>> SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). |
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>> Example here: <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6915550#6915550> |
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>> What do you think about adding list of variables in make.conf to emerge |
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>> --info ? I know we can always ask for the make.conf, but it either |
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>> requires asking for a large amount of info up front, or increases the |
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>> number of round-trips (emerge --info looks normal, ask for make.conf). |
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> I think what want already exists: |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/info_vars |
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> Am I right? |
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Not really. Even the example SYSTEM is not listed there, and as said |
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before we can't put every possible, now and in the future, bad variable |
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name there. |
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I think another line should be added to emerge --info, like this (just |
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an example, most variables omitted): |
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Variables defined in make.conf: CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, SYSTEM, ... |
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