Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

[Donnie Berkholz]

Zac Medico wrote:
> We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself.  The env-update tool could
> be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as
> being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class.  The tool would
> make one pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another
> pass to process the rest of the variables.

How badly will this break someone's system when they accidentally rm -rf
/etc/env.d and try to reinstall all the apps that put something there?

Thanks,
Donnie