Re: [gentoo-dev] whitelisting the env ebuilds execute in

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> So it will be something like $PORTDIR/profiles/env.accept.list in which 
> all devs should be able to add to as needed vs having to file bugs and
> wait for long periods of time?
Yeah, pretty much.

Whatever y'all want it to be, I'm just getting bloody sick of seeing 200+ vars in an ebuild execution env, whenever I 
have to go digging into the guts of it.  Beyond that, it is (afaik) a good source of screwy bugs- random user vars 
screwing with things that aren't expected/accounted for.  A blacklist approach isn't sane there, too many 
possibilities.

Not sure who it was who mentioned it (marienz, was that you?), but a per-ebuild GRAB_USER_VARS would likely be sane 
also- that would be checked by the ebuild_processor, and the env var would be set.  This is post sourcing however- 
before setup phase.
~harring
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