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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ECONF_EXTRA handling: bug 38618
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:30:55
Message-Id: 1128720626.25197.5.camel@txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] ECONF_EXTRA handling: bug 38618 by Brian Harring
1 On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:03 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
2 > It allows for users to override ebuild defined configure options,
3 > potentially shooting themselves in the foot, but in the same token
4 > they can already shoot themselves in the foot via EXTRA_ECONF...
5
6 Since EXTRA_ECONF is all about letting users shoot themselves, I see no
7 reason not to.
8
9 Regards,
10 Paul
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