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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] do not rely on internal variables used by portage functions
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:17:48
Message-Id: 200703311815.00893.vapier@gentoo.org
1 we've noticed that many things in the tree abuse the fact that the portage
2 helpers utilize environment variables to communicate ... for example, people
3 setting DOCDESTTREE by hand rather than using `docinto`
4
5 unless some one can give me a valid reason for this stuff, the plan is to fix
6 these ebuilds and change portage internals so those vars dont exist
7 -mike

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