On 12/04/2016 10:13 PM, A. Wilcox wrote: > > If there are no other objections to this proposal, would a PR that > implements this against the Gentoo tree be the best way forward? If > so, I can start work on that now while giving more people the chance > to read over it. (Would it be more desirable to have all changes in a > single large commit, or one commit per package?) >
Maybe a GLEP with the contents of your first mail? If there's consensus for the premise and the implementation, it's easy to add the variables. Then it's only a matter of updating ebuilds. Since the change is essentially a no-op for Gentoo, I don't think it will be hard to get maintainers to accept the changes. We do however have to worry about editing stable ebuilds in-place, and maintainers who are picky about their packages being modified. You may wind up having to file bugs for a lot of packages that need a new revision.
