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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:43:06
Message-Id: 200510210843.49679.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users by Brian Harring
1 On Friday 21 October 2005 08:07, Brian Harring wrote:
2 > Bash hooks would exist in 3.0; they're user specific hooks only, hence
3 > the bit about java being an evil exception till 3.0 comes to town. I
4 > intend to lock down the pre/post hooks prior to ebuild sourcing under
5 > ebd, so ebuilds/eclasses trying to use those hooks won't be able to.
6 >
7 > In the meantime, it's a nice abuse of a user feature that makes java
8 > 1.4->1.5 stuff work, and works fine when 3.0 autodisables it.
9
10 I don't get why it's "needed" by java ebuilds? Is it a fasttrack to getting
11 unsandboxed root access?
12
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14 Jason Stubbs
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>