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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:37:36
Message-Id: 1326713810.2680.1.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info by "Paweł Hajdan
1 El lun, 16-01-2012 a las 11:54 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió:
2 > People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like
3 > SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping").
4 >
5 > Example here: <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6915550#6915550>
6 >
7 > What do you think about adding list of variables in make.conf to emerge
8 > --info ? I know we can always ask for the make.conf, but it either
9 > requires asking for a large amount of info up front, or increases the
10 > number of round-trips (emerge --info looks normal, ask for make.conf).
11 >
12
13 I agree but, why not *also* make portage warn people when they are
14 exporting some "known to break" variables in their make.conf?

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