Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS depreciation

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 14:13, Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:35:07 -0500 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
> >
> > wrote:
> > | I've been trying to sit in #gentoo more often ( I figured insanity
> > | would be a good excuse for my crummy grades ) and I am scared by the
> > | fact that people still walk in and try using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~blar"
> > | to emerge things.  We all know why this is bad, and it's been bad for
> > | quite some time.
> > |
> > | Opinions on adding a warning when users have set this in their
> > | environment?
> >
> > If you're warning on that, you could also warn on far more dangerous
> > and at least equally as common things like silly CFLAGS or having
> > LDFLAGS set.
>
> Well I wouldn't consider those incorrect portage usage.

and neither is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS imo

> The deal with
> this is we used to recommend ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge foo.  People
> still use this convention; so I hope that a warning will inform people to
> not use it.

deprecating that we recommend the usage sure, but deprecating the syntax not 
so good ... there's a bunch of ways i use portage that slowly seem to be 
'deprecated', and it's getting annoying :P
-mike
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