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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> A recent thread on gentoo-dev proposed a change to the devmanual's |
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> description of the ROOT variable: |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/8901669dd375ca0fdb610efef0ddfe6f |
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> The proposed change would bring the devmanual's language in line with |
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> the PMS. That discussion reveals that the use of ROOT outside of |
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> pkg_* is illegal, yet current versions of repoman/portage allow it. |
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> This commit adds a test ebuild that violates the PMS (with respect to |
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> ROOT) in several ways. |
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This looks good to me, very thorough. I say go ahead and push it. |
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