Hi,
On So, 25 Okt 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being
> writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any
> businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of its build dir
> (or /tmp).
I disagree. Some upstream build mechanism simply want to do some
checks. Do we want to force each maintainer to make sure this doesn't
happen and patch it away?
I have been bitten by that with jppy which runs test suites at built time
using scons, and needs to initialize some data there for test building.
I would suggest on the contrary that HOME *will* be set by all scripts
to a newly created empty directory.
Best wishes
Norbert
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