On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:52:30 +0100
Steven J Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm given that this relies on profile.bashrc, in specification terms
> one would have to ensure that http://bugs.gentoo.org/202631 (which
> was recently raised in #-council) were resolved.

No, because as you've repeatedly been told, profile.bashrc lies outside
of the specification precisely to allow the kind of Portage-internals
trickery that's being discussed here.

> OFC for that to happen, the spec needs to acknowledge that bashrc's
> exist so that downstream can use them in overlays, irrespective of
> the user's choice of package-mangler.

If profile.bashrc were to be specified, none of this would be legal,
since it would have to restrict the contents to portable code.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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