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>>>>> On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, A Wilcox wrote: |
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> Roadmap |
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> Since the shell environment is flexible, this change can be |
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> implemented almost immediately; the defaults specified in the Gentoo |
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> base profile ensure that at worst nothing will immediately change. |
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> As forks, derivatives, and other organisations change the |
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> environment variables in their profiles or ``make.conf`` files, all |
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> updated ebuilds will immediately reflect the changes. |
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I think that the base profile is the right place where you would |
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define such variables. As you note, you could do that immediately |
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without any EAPI change. |
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> During this, the variables can be added to the EAPI=7 specification, |
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> and may eventually be added to PMS ยง11.1. |
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What would be the advantage if the package manager would define such |
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variables, instead of them being defined in profiles? Package |
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managers are not specific to any distribution. |
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Ulrich |
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