On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:30:32 -0800 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:37 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 1/11/07, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And I assume there is a non-trivial number of custom scripts out > > > there using make.profile, but that's nothing we can do about. > > > > > > > You could give them all a grace period for which have to comply with > > the new standard by then end of it, and have ( during that grace > > period ) an automatic symlink generation based on that make.conf > > flag. > > > > And just to make sure, I doubt it would be too difficult to have an > > application that analyises packages as they install to check whether > > they reference make.profile or not, and flag a QA warning if they > > do. > > > > > > > And packages that don't switch to the standard by the end of the > > grace period I guess we'll see on a "last rites" bulletin ;) > > Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. A simple expedient would be to have the package manager re-create the symlink according to the variable, whenever it is run. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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