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On 01/24/13 13:25, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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>> a fatal die in pkg_pretend could be circumvented by an environment |
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>> variable such as ${PN}_I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING being set. Just a thought. |
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> If we're going to do this I'd definitely have the ${PN} bit as you |
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> suggested. Otherwise everybody will just set it in make.conf and the |
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> feature will be pointless. Then we'll yell at users because they |
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> disabled the feature that normally just tends to break half their |
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> builds but this time by some miracle would have actually prevented a |
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> problem. |
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Are there really that many ways that this could cause false positives? |
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(Not that I'm against the $PN prefix, just curious). |
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I've only seen two legitimate examples: catalyst (whose developers are |
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more than capable of setting a variable) and a supervisor-provided |
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kernel for which you have no information. |
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