Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:52:53
Message-Id: 1139172337.8084.36.camel@gorn.pebenito.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 15:33 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:17, Chris PeBenito wrote:
3 > > I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental
4 > > variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the
5 > > packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple
6 > > enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we really want to
7 > > work to fix polluted environments? I can't help but think that is not
8 > > my bug, but instead (apparently) kth-krb's fault for polluting the env
9 > > (the vars are seemingly worthless man and info pages paths).
10 >
11 > how is kth-krb polluting the env ? via env.d ?
12
13 Not sure as I don't use it; its what the reporter says.
14
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