Stephen Bennett wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:38:49 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If Portage currently happens to, say, disable sandbox if an ebuild
sets GIVE_ME_A_COOKIE="yes" globally, it does not mean that ebuilds
may rely upon this behaviour, nor does it mean that Portage cannot
change in such a way that breaks this behaviour. The acceptance
question is relevant only for legitimate behaviour; things accepted
by fluke aren't considered accepted.
However, the fact that Portage currently accepts it is tangentially
related to the matter at hand, because it's a piece of code that may
get confused by this sort of ambiguity. Fortunately it's (relatively
speaking) trivial to fix, because the ambiguity only happens due to
behaviour that shouldn't really be there.
Can you and Ciaran update the PMS to be specific and clear on this
point? Cause I think everyone is in agreement here and all technical
issues have been addressed. Unless I missed something.
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