On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM Piotr Karbowski <slashbe...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643 > > Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql, > elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead? > > It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random > variable is not even prefixed with PORTAGE_ or anything, meaning it > could be taken out of shell and meant for entirely different thing.
Another problem with such magic variables is that they are ineffective when installing binpkgs. During pkg_preinst, portage will restore the environment variables that were present when the package was built, and ignore anything you have set in the environment since then.
