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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:12:04 +0100
From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:46:35 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:41:01 +0100
> Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > The PMS[0] says
> > > 
> > >    Ebuilds must not access [FILESDIR] in global scope.
> > > 
> > > But, for example, autoconf-2.69-r2.ebuild does,
> > > 
> > >    if [[ -z ${__EBLITS__} && -n ${FILESDIR} ]] ; then
> > >      source "${FILESDIR}"/eblits/main.eblit || die
> > >    fi
> > > 
> > > in global scope.
> > >     
> > 
> > Continuing to be the devil's advocate, it seems adding '&& -d
> > ${FILESDIR}' to that if would fix the issue too. At least with all
> > currently approved EAPIs.  
> 
> Please stop. PMS was not written with the kind of resources needed to
> deal with people deliberately trying to find loopholes.
> 

Yep, nor should it be that way. However, retroactively adding new
rules, pushing patches to package managers to enforce the "cleaner"
behavior, coming with a QA hammer and useless deadlines with poor
explanations, rewriting the libc ebuilds and proposing to push these
straight to stable next week starts to resemble more to a pissing
context than a will to have a sane discussion.