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On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:53:02 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> It is the spec's fault when it sets stupid and mismatched |
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> requirements. As long as we don't restrict pkg_* phases from calling |
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> external tools, prohibiting writes to temporary directory is just |
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> pointless. Every semi-sane system has a writable temporary directory |
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> that can be used freely by random programs, and so shall ebuild |
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> environment have. |
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But ${T} has to point somewhere special... |
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> As for pkg_pretend(), I don't have a strong opinion whether it should |
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> be added to use external tools. However, prohibiting that would limit |
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> its use a lot. As for remaining pkg_*() phases, I think such |
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> prohibition would simply make the phases purposeless. |
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But it can't rely upon external tools being present, and if they are |
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present, they can't be relied upon to work (have their dependencies |
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installed). |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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