From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se (smtp-4.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.193]); by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 47ff7e4b; for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:22:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCAE61F6A; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:22:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (smtp-4.sys.kth.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id WDHtZD5kSWxS; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:22:02 +0100 (CET) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [109.222.95.173] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv Received: from pc3.home (AToulouse-651-1-128-173.w109-222.abo.wanadoo.fr [109.222.95.173]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D76C278; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:21:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54C042A0.6080806@bsd.lv> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:21:52 +0100 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Schwarze , Alexis CC: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Allow configure variables to be set from environment References: <20150116215840.GF740@kei.fritz.box> <20150117010706.GH9772@iris.usta.de> <54BAC1A2.2060907@bsd.lv> <20150118033335.GA16562@iris.usta.de> <20150120151501.GA97151@kei> <20150121230518.GF11796@iris.usta.de> In-Reply-To: <20150121230518.GF11796@iris.usta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ingo, I think this is a bad idea: there shouldn't be conditionals in the code for every half-baked package manager out there, especially when they introduce security holes. If there are other "linking" systems out there, then something like this might be useful. But right now, homebrew is alone. Alexis, you said that the homebrew folks don't like patching software. But there must be a facility to do so, no? Shouldn't this patch be there, and not upstream? Best, Kristaps -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv