Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecation of SANDBOX_DISABLED

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 03:05 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
> Hola.
>
> Subject says it all; SANDBOX_DISABLED functions as (essentially)
> RESTRICT="sandbox", except sandbox is left on for pkg_setup .
>
> This is pretty much redundant, considering it's usage.  People stick
> it in the global scope; if you _must_ turn off the sandbox for a
> specific phase, use SANDBOX_ON=0/1 instead.  If you need to disable
> sandbox across the board, restrict="sandbox" is your friend.
>
> Since there are still ebuilds in the tree that would be schmooked by
> it, it's not going to hit in the coming version, but I'd expect it to
> be dead next version after unless people have a really good reason why
> it should live on.
>
> So... thoughts?  Yes it's minor, but it's a matter of cleaning
> up/simplifying portage code, and removing redundancy.
>

Sounds sane.


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Martin Schlemmer