On Wed, 11 May 2016 12:27:10 -0400 Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> > wrote: > > A recent thread on gentoo-dev proposed a change to the devmanual's > > description of the ROOT variable: > > > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/8901669dd375ca0fdb610efef0ddfe6f > > > > The proposed change would bring the devmanual's language in line > > with the PMS. That discussion reveals that the use of ROOT outside > > of pkg_* is illegal, yet current versions of repoman/portage allow > > it. This commit adds a test ebuild that violates the PMS (with > > respect to ROOT) in several ways. > > This looks good to me, very thorough. I say go ahead and push it. > I agree, and thank you. I'll work on adding this check to repoman after I finish getting some in progress changes done so the new repoman code can be released. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
