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>


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