#14226: add SAGE_INST environment variable
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Reporter: rohana | Owner: jason
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.9
Component: misc | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: R. Andrew Ohana | Merged in:
Dependencies: #13432 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by rohana):
Replying to [comment:7 tkluck]:
> In general though, I think that this directory shouldn't be needed from
different places at all. There should be two functions (or shell scripts,
or ./sage options) like set_installed(name, bool) and is_installed(name)
that know about how installation status is tracked, and only they are
allowed to know about this directory. Having INST in the environment will
allow/encourage people to check installation status themselves, and I
think that should be prevented.
Maybe, but at the same time it makes it a lot easier to find offending
cases if we do move to a pair of functions like you propose, so at the
very least this would be a step in the right direction.
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