Re: Could there be a way to disable LOAD-PREFERENCES?

Gary King <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:01:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm very in favor of this. I'll even promise to implement it tonight  
(via a keyword, I think).

On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Richard M Kreuter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could there be a simple way to disable the preference loading
> machinery in ASDF?  I don't care much about the interface (a special
> variable, an initarg to OPERATE, etc.), but IMO it's important to be
> able to use ASDF to build things in an environment that's free from
> user customizations.
>
> Here's the specific problem: SBCL uses ASDF as part of its build
> process, and so if a user has things at ~/.asdf, then preference
> loading can either fail or pull in user customizations that can break
> SBCL's building or self-testing.
>
> Thanks,
> RmK
>
>
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