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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment
From:       Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-01-29 22:53:16
Message-ID: 1391035996.29447.0.camel () kanae
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Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 13:11 +0000, Steven J. Long a écrit :
> Alec Warner wrote:
> > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to change the
> > behavior of *portage* now; rather than waiting for a new EAPI. If an ebuild
> > needs to define EAPI=eapi-next to 'correctly' use XDG_*, well that is
> > someone else's can of worms.
> 
> Agreed: portage can clear those vars from the env as mgorny stated on the bug,
> and an xdg.eclass (or w/e) can setup good defaults for packages which need
> them. Presumably it'd be inherited by gnome and kde eclasses, for example,
> so most people wouldn't even see it.

Exactly.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo


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