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From: Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:19:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124813995.6502.147.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430A9AAB.2000709@egr.msu.edu>

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:40 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> Why wouldn't you want him blocking out a variable that is KNOWN to
> break a build?

I could be trying to fix that up. It might usually break, but one could
have a special setting like uclibc. The breakage might come from an
external lib that one hacked and it doesnt break cause of his hack.

You probably can find a lot of other situations.

But as you said:

> you can always remove it via some setting ( /etc/portage or
> otherwise ).

Black/whitelisting could allow you to specify vars to go through.

Kristian

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-23 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 20:25 [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting Alec Warner
2005-08-22  1:24 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-22  3:52 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Drake Wyrm
2005-08-22  4:41   ` Zac Medico
2005-08-22 16:29     ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-22 14:52   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-08-22 18:08     ` Zac Medico
2005-08-22 19:15       ` warnera6
2005-08-22 19:24         ` Zac Medico
2005-08-22 20:58           ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23  1:57           ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-23  2:15             ` Brian Harring
2005-08-22 21:33 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Marius Mauch
2005-08-22 21:40   ` Brian Harring
2005-08-22 21:55     ` warnera6
2005-08-22 21:59     ` Marius Mauch
2005-08-22 22:19       ` Brian Harring
2005-08-22 22:36         ` Alec Warner
2005-08-22 22:41           ` Brian Harring
2005-08-22 23:01             ` [gentoo-portage-dev] Profiles [ was Environmental Whitelisting ] Alec Warner
2005-08-22 23:28     ` [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting Jason Stubbs
2005-08-22 23:56       ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23 10:50         ` Jason Stubbs
2005-08-23  0:27       ` Alec Warner
2005-08-23  2:46       ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-23  3:40         ` Alec Warner
2005-08-23 16:19           ` Kristian Benoit [this message]

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