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"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> posted |
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4867B636.9080004@g.o, excerpted below, on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 |
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18:20:06 +0200: |
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> Why can't portage use its own variables and export these with an initial |
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> value but not use them further? |
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One way of looking at is that these /are/ the PM's own variables, simply |
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exposed read-only to make life simpler. There's nothing you can't do by |
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setting your own variables initially equal to the read-only vars and |
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modifying them as you wish, that you could do if the PM exported them |
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writable but ignored any rewritten values itself. Either a read-only |
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variable works fine, or a rewritable value then ignored by the PM |
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wouldn't work either. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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