>>>>> On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, A Wilcox wrote: > Roadmap > - -------
> Since the shell environment is flexible, this change can be > implemented almost immediately; the defaults specified in the Gentoo > base profile ensure that at worst nothing will immediately change. > As forks, derivatives, and other organisations change the > environment variables in their profiles or ``make.conf`` files, all > updated ebuilds will immediately reflect the changes. I think that the base profile is the right place where you would define such variables. As you note, you could do that immediately without any EAPI change. > During this, the variables can be added to the EAPI=7 specification, > and may eventually be added to PMS §11.1. What would be the advantage if the package manager would define such variables, instead of them being defined in profiles? Package managers are not specific to any distribution. Ulrich
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