Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] Version Naming Clarification

[Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:38:49 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:

> 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.

However, the fact that Portage currently accepts it is tangentially
related to the matter at hand, because it's a piece of code that may
get confused by this sort of ambiguity. Fortunately it's (relatively
speaking) trivial to fix, because the ambiguity only happens due to
behaviour that shouldn't really be there.
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