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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> wrote: |
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> > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643 |
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> Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql, |
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> elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead? |
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> It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random |
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> variable is not even prefixed with PORTAGE_ or anything, meaning it |
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> could be taken out of shell and meant for entirely different thing. |
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Another problem with such magic variables is that they are ineffective |
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when installing binpkgs. During pkg_preinst, portage will restore the |
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environment variables that were present when the package was built, |
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and ignore anything you have set in the environment since then. |
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