On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:31:38 +0200 Harald van Dijk wrote: > If the question is whether it's accepted, what matters is whether it's > accepted. If you're interested in legality, ask whether it should be > accepted, not whether it is. spb did that in the same message, and I > responded negatively to that. I'm really not seeing your point here. If Portage currently happens to, say, disable sandbox if an ebuild sets GIVE_ME_A_COOKIE="yes" globally, it does not mean that ebuilds may rely upon this behaviour, nor does it mean that Portage cannot change in such a way that breaks this behaviour. The acceptance question is relevant only for legitimate behaviour; things accepted by fluke aren't considered accepted. -- Ciaran McCreesh