From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES use or misuse?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:31:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2009.11.04.01.31.55@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200911032304.33752.levertond@googlemail.com
David Leverton posted on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:04:33 +0000 as excerpted:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:48:03 Patrick Lauer wrote:
>> To quote:
>> "FEATURES is a portage specific package manager configuration variable
>> not specified in PMS and cannot reliably be used in ebuilds or
>> eclasses."
>
> This has been the Portage team's position for years, since long before
> there were PMS and other package managers. See
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82513#c16 for example.
Indeed, that comment is from 2005, but I've been around since 2004 and
remember no other position on FEATURES, ever. There are others who
predate me. Idle question, when was FEATURES introduced as a portage
variable?
Of course, one way to end the debate would be for portage to unset the
variable before calling ebuild.sh, on environment pollution grounds...
Given the history of (ab)use, there'd be solid reason to do that. Maybe
I should file a bug...
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 15:48 [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 17:27 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-03 20:36 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 20:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-03 22:28 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-04 0:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-05 1:36 ` Ryan Hill
2009-11-05 4:56 ` [gentoo-dev] a pragmatic approach to FEATURES [was FEATURES use or misuse?] Brian Harring
2009-11-05 8:49 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-05 9:36 ` Brian Harring
2009-11-08 9:21 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-03 21:26 ` [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Alexis Ballier
2009-11-03 22:04 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 22:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-04 0:33 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 23:04 ` David Leverton
2009-11-04 1:31 ` Duncan [this message]
2009-11-04 22:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-11-05 5:04 ` Brian Harring
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