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On 24/01/13 01:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 01/24/13 13:25, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Ian Stakenvicius
>> <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> a fatal die in pkg_pretend could be circumvented by an
>>> environment variable such as ${PN}_I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING being
>>> set. Just a thought.
>>
>> If we're going to do this I'd definitely have the ${PN} bit as
>> you suggested. Otherwise everybody will just set it in make.conf
>> and the feature will be pointless. Then we'll yell at users
>> because they disabled the feature that normally just tends to
>> break half their builds but this time by some miracle would have
>> actually prevented a problem.
>
> Are there really that many ways that this could cause false
> positives? (Not that I'm against the $PN prefix, just curious).
>
> I've only seen two legitimate examples: catalyst (whose developers
> are more than capable of setting a variable) and a
> supervisor-provided kernel for which you have no information.
>
How about, you know what you're doing and are going to build a new
kernel as soon as the emerge finishes (since the emerge is also
bringing in a new gentoo-sources)??
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