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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643
>
> Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql,
> elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead?
>
> It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random
> variable is not even prefixed with PORTAGE_ or anything, meaning it
> could be taken out of shell and meant for entirely different thing.
Another problem with such magic variables is that they are ineffective
when installing binpkgs. During pkg_preinst, portage will restore the
environment variables that were present when the package was built,
and ignore anything you have set in the environment since then.