> On 25 Nov 2021, at 17:07, Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 2021-11-25 18:01, Piotr Karbowski wrote: >>> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643 >> Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql, >> elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead? >> It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random variable >> is not even prefixed with PORTAGE_ or anything, meaning it could be taken >> out of shell and meant for entirely different thing. > > Yeah, sounds like the I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING thing which you end up having > enabled globally for various reasons.
Just like updating in a cron job is a not-great idea, setting this globally and not per-package via /etc/portage/env sounds rather cavalier.
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