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On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:31 PM, A. Wilcox <awilfox@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Roadmap |
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> Since the shell environment is flexible, this change can be |
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> implemented almost immediately; the defaults specified in the Gentoo |
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> base profile ensure that at worst nothing will immediately change. As |
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> forks, derivatives, and other organisations change the environment |
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> variables in their profiles or ``make.conf`` files, all updated |
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> ebuilds will immediately reflect the changes. |
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> During this, the variables can be added to the EAPI=7 specification, |
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> and may eventually be added to PMS §11.1. |
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It's not clear to me why this should be defined in PMS, especially if |
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this is going to be a profile variable in make.defaults. |
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I think we would only need to add it to PMS if you need to package |
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manager to compute the value based on the running system. Is that what |
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you had in mind here? If so, you will need to include that algorithm |
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in your patch. |
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