Re: Portage per-package environment/behavior

Sven Vermeulen posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:18:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:14:49AM +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>> I noticed we don't describe in the handbook that Portage can have
>> per-package environment variables (like CFLAGS) through
>> /etc/portage/env. This can be even (ab?)used to execute steps before or
>> after specific phases (based on the EBUILD_PHASE information),
>> something I use for updating IDS systems (postinst/prerm phase).
> 
> So, considering the idea of having a section added to "Working with
> Portage"
> called "Advanced Portage Features", this is what it could look like:
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/hb-portage-advanced.xml

Looks quite good to me so far. =:^)

But all sections were section 1.  Is that simply due to the prototype 
process or is it a mistake?

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