On 1/17/12 6:35 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 01/16/2012 02:54 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like
>> SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping").
>>
>> Example here: <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6915550#6915550>
>>
>> What do you think about adding list of variables in make.conf to emerge
>> --info ? I know we can always ask for the make.conf, but it either
>> requires asking for a large amount of info up front, or increases the
>> number of round-trips (emerge --info looks normal, ask for make.conf).
> 
> I think what want already exists:
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/info_vars
> 
> Am I right?

Not really. Even the example SYSTEM is not listed there, and as said
before we can't put every possible, now and in the future, bad variable
name there.

I think another line should be added to emerge --info, like this (just
an example, most variables omitted):

Variables defined in make.conf: CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, SYSTEM, ...

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