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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] do not rely on internal variables used by portage functions
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:06:07
Message-Id: 200704062203.32663.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] do not rely on internal variables used by portage functions by Mike Frysinger
1 On Saturday 31 March 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > we've noticed that many things in the tree abuse the fact that the portage
3 > helpers utilize environment variables to communicate ... for example,
4 > people setting DOCDESTTREE by hand rather than using `docinto`
5 >
6 > unless some one can give me a valid reason for this stuff, the plan is to
7 > fix these ebuilds and change portage internals so those vars dont exist
8
9 since no one can put forth a valid reason, i'm going to go ahead and start
10 fixing things
11 -mike

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