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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] restricting phases where enew{user,group} is allowed
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2011-11-26 6:42:31
Message-ID: 201111260142.31899.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Wednesday 23 November 2011 19:31:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> currently we blacklist certain phases (which is largely based on EAPI=0 and
> blocking src_*) for enew{user,group}.  moving forward, ferringb suggested
> we invert this into a whitelist of allowed phases.
> 
> afaict, the blacklisting + dev documentation has done a good job of
> restricting calls to three places: pkg_{setup,preinst,postinst}.  so
> inverting the logic should largely be safe.  on the off chance it isn't, i
> think letting the ebuild `die` and getting it fixed up via bug reports is
> acceptable (i grepped through the tree a bit and looked sane).

committed:
http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/user.eclass?r1=1.10&r2=1.11
-mike

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