#10040: Don't ask for verbose output from tar when installing packages
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Reporter: mpatel | Owner: drkirkby
Type: enhancement | Status: positive_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.6.1
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: Leif Leonhardy | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Mitesh Patel | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:26 jdemeyer]:
> Have you considered simply remove the {{{v}}} option to {{{tar}}}
without environment variables? I don't really like adding another
(pointless) environment variable.
See comments above. It's always good to have a "back door", the others
then wanted me to officially document it. (And Mitesh recently asked if I
could provide some way to reenable the useless "''copying ...''" messages
from distutils if I suppress them.)
I don't mind having dozens of environment variables ''that nobody uses'',
at least as far as their names do not pollute the environment. (And
they're much easier to implement than command line options.) There are
enough scripts that export(!) variables like `OPT` etc., often despite
being only locally used. The package name variables set in `spkg/install`,
used in `deps`, are bad enough.
But IMHO the opposite is the case: We have too many ''useful'' variables
(some undocumented), many with odd names like `SAGE64` (which always
reminds me of F77, Window95 etc.).
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