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

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-01-26, o godz. 21:35:27
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):

> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:21:44 -0800
> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
> > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to
> > change the behavior of *portage* now; rather than waiting for a new
> > EAPI. If an ebuild needs to define EAPI=eapi-next to 'correctly' use
> > XDG_*, well that is someone else's can of worms.
>
> Changing Portage to hide the issue is a bad idea, since it makes it
> harder for developers to notice that that's a problem they need to fix.
> Although maybe you could set XDG_* to something that will give a big
> noisy sandbox violation for current EAPIs?

Yes, because instantly breaking a few dozen ebuilds in stable tree for
the sake of proving a point is always a good idea.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny