On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > This is a follow up from an older thread by leio in the mailing list: > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/bf36c4c50f9c15db222faa6a66b0c6c9 > > The problem is that, at present time, we are getting more and more bugs > coming from flatpak users that get build failures due to having those > variables "polluted". > > Personally, I would opt for unsetting them too and properly set them to > known values for packages needing it. But I am unsure if we could > probably do a tinderbox run to find&fix packages needing them to be set > :-/
I'm not really familiar with the packages that require these variables. I agree with the idea in principle though. It seems like x11-libs/gtk+ is one example given by leio. How would we fix that one? Can the same strategy be applied to similar ebuilds? Another possible idea would be to source /etc/profile.env in a subshell and pick out the relevant XDG variables in xdg_environment_reset.
