Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: dev-lang/go prefix patch hard coding a path to a binary

2015-11-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/23/2015 08:41 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > there is a patch to dev-lang/go that was added a while back w/o > consulting me [1]. I eventually did review the patch, and I see > that it hard codes a path to the sysctl binary on OSx. In my

[gentoo-dev] rfc: dev-lang/go prefix patch hard coding a path to a binary

2015-11-23 Thread William Hubbs
All, there is a patch to dev-lang/go that was added a while back w/o consulting me [1]. I eventually did review the patch, and I see that it hard codes a path to the sysctl binary on OSx. In my view, prefix or not, we shouldn't be patching software to hard code paths to binaries; we should be fixi