On 08/03/2017 02:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > It's in the devmanual, which imposes gentoo-specific policy on top of PMS. >
It would be nice if that were true, but there's a lot of junk and/or personal preference documented in the devmanual, and a lot of actual-policy that's still missing because it can't get past review. This looks like it was tacked on for fun as part of the devrel handbook merger: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/commit/c97aec7f7e236bc917067763916530bfa05d6e31 (The old handbook never mentioned variables, from what I can see.)
