Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:27:24
Message-Id: 1124813995.6502.147.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting by Alec Warner
1 On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:40 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > Why wouldn't you want him blocking out a variable that is KNOWN to
3 > break a build?
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5 I could be trying to fix that up. It might usually break, but one could
6 have a special setting like uclibc. The breakage might come from an
7 external lib that one hacked and it doesnt break cause of his hack.
8
9 You probably can find a lot of other situations.
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11 But as you said:
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13 > you can always remove it via some setting ( /etc/portage or
14 > otherwise ).
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16 Black/whitelisting could allow you to specify vars to go through.
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18 Kristian
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