On 03/23/2017 09:36 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
No, the argument is about "we want to clean up the tree from abusive
hacks".
This is yours. Mike's answer is merely asking for proper justification
and doesn't seem to have had an answer yet.
The PMS[0] says
Ebuilds must not access [FILESDIR] in global scope.
But, for example, autoconf-2.69-r2.ebuild does,
if [[ -z ${__EBLITS__} && -n ${FILESDIR} ]] ; then
source "${FILESDIR}"/eblits/main.eblit || die
fi
in global scope.
I think there are some related patches to block this sort of thing in
portage, but portage can't be improved while a critical package is doing
the thing that we want to prevent.
[0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#fn4x12
