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| From: | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Global ebuild variables and pkg_setup | ||
| Date: | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:17:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200702211909.50913.vapier@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Global ebuild variables and pkg_setup by Ciaran McCreesh |
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| 1 | On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 2 | > A number of ebuilds do things like this: |
| 3 | > inherit foo |
| 4 | > VAR="${FOO_VAR}" |
| 5 | > where foo.eclass looks like this: |
| 6 | > foo_pkg_setup() |
| 7 | > export FOO_VAR=baz |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Is this something that has to work (at the expense of never allowing |
| 10 | > eclass removal in the future), or is it a fluke and are ebuilds that |
| 11 | > use it broken? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | flawed logic and env pollution is why this exists; cut it |
| 14 | -mike |