Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Environment Whitelisting

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:59:54PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On 08/22/05  Brian Harring wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:33:23PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > Theoretical discussions about this are pointless IMO without
> > > numbers/facts to back things up.
> > I'd posit theroetical discussions about this are pointless without 
> > getting ebuild dev's to give a yay/nay on whether they want it or not;
> > 
> > not much for trying to force it down their throats if they don't want 
> > it (more work, essentially).
> 
> That too. But providing them with some numbers will certainly have an
> effect on their decision (especially if it shows that it doesn't really
> affect them ;)
Rather hard to back it up though, without specialized knowledge in 
(effectively) the whole tree- either we do it, or we ask nicely those 
who are supposed to have such knowledge :)

I can rattle off a couple of env vars that screw things up, but how 
many of us are aware that an exported ARCH screws with kernel builds 
fex?

I'd punt it to them, and find out what they think (tiz the route I 
took when I brought this up last).

Explicit whitelisting is great for getting closer to deterministic 
builds, but it's a helluva overhead on a side note.
~harring

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