Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Cyprien Nicolas
"Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: On 1/17/12 6:35 PM, Zac Medico wrote: I think what want already exists: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/info_vars Am I right? Not really. Even the example SYSTEM is not listed there, and as said before we can't put every possible, n

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 17-01-2012 a las 18:23 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió: > On 1/16/12 12:36 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > I agree but, why not *also* make portage warn people when they are > > exporting some "known to break" variables in their make.conf? > > That'd require coming up with such list of "kno

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:41:47 +0100 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > Not really. Even the example SYSTEM is not listed there, and as said > before we can't put every possible, now and in the future, bad > variable name there. Wouldn't the environment file reveal these bad variables? emerge output h

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/17/12 6:35 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 01/16/2012 02:54 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like >> SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). >> >> Example here:

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/16/2012 02:54 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like > SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). > > Example here: > > What do you think about adding list

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/16/12 12:36 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I agree but, why not *also* make portage warn people when they are > exporting some "known to break" variables in their make.conf? That'd require coming up with such list of "known bad" variable names, and generally I don't think blacklisting is very effec

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/16/2012 02:54 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like > SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). > > Example here: > > What do you think about adding list

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 16-01-2012 a las 11:54 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió: > People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like > SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). > > Example here: > > What do you think

[gentoo-dev] adding list of variables exported by make.conf to emerge --info

2012-01-16 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
People frequently break their systems by exporting weird variables like SYSTEM from /etc/make.conf (USE variable "grouping"). Example here: What do you think about adding list of variables in make.conf to emerge --info ? I know we can alw