On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:46:35 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:41:01 +0100
> Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Continuing to be the devil's advocate, it seems adding '&& -d
> > ${FILESDIR}' to that if would fix the issue too. At least with all
> > currently approved EAPIs.
>
> Please stop. PMS was not written with the kind of resources needed to
> deal with people deliberately trying to find loopholes.
>
Yep, nor should it be that way. However, retroactively adding new
rules, pushing patches to package managers to enforce the "cleaner"
behavior, coming with a QA hammer and useless deadlines with poor
explanations, rewriting the libc ebuilds and proposing to push these
straight to stable next week starts to resemble more to a pissing
context than a will to have a sane discussion.
