On Thursday 15 December 2005 14:13, Alec Joseph Warner wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:35:07 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > | I've been trying to sit in #gentoo more often ( I figured insanity > > | would be a good excuse for my crummy grades ) and I am scared by the > > | fact that people still walk in and try using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~blar" > > | to emerge things. We all know why this is bad, and it's been bad for > > | quite some time. > > | > > | Opinions on adding a warning when users have set this in their > > | environment? > > > > If you're warning on that, you could also warn on far more dangerous > > and at least equally as common things like silly CFLAGS or having > > LDFLAGS set. > > Well I wouldn't consider those incorrect portage usage.
and neither is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS imo > The deal with > this is we used to recommend ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge foo. People > still use this convention; so I hope that a warning will inform people to > not use it. deprecating that we recommend the usage sure, but deprecating the syntax not so good ... there's a bunch of ways i use portage that slowly seem to be 'deprecated', and it's getting annoying :P -mike -- [email protected] mailing list
