-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 24/01/13 01:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/24/13 13:25, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Ian Stakenvicius >> <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> a fatal die in pkg_pretend could be circumvented by an >>> environment variable such as ${PN}_I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING being >>> set. Just a thought. >> >> If we're going to do this I'd definitely have the ${PN} bit as >> you suggested. Otherwise everybody will just set it in make.conf >> and the feature will be pointless. Then we'll yell at users >> because they disabled the feature that normally just tends to >> break half their builds but this time by some miracle would have >> actually prevented a problem. > > Are there really that many ways that this could cause false > positives? (Not that I'm against the $PN prefix, just curious). > > I've only seen two legitimate examples: catalyst (whose developers > are more than capable of setting a variable) and a > supervisor-provided kernel for which you have no information. >
How about, you know what you're doing and are going to build a new kernel as soon as the emerge finishes (since the emerge is also bringing in a new gentoo-sources)?? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlEBhEsACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDYHAD/RCYlN6hcItJYn/gCcEdEgh+C owE/NaeGNDiH+3H/+uAA/jRfeJ+HPxDLdGNxt/VARcrqYnA15o6SmAiHOIj4i8Au =FTEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----