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Bug 28169

Summary: gnome-base/gconf ebuilds violate setting $P policy
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: SpanKY <vapier>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-09-08 01:33:17 UTC
you cannot set the $P variable inside of an ebuild but the following do:
gnome-base/gconf/gconf-2.2.1.ebuild:P=${PN}-${PV}
gnome-base/gconf/gconf-2.2.0.ebuild:P=${PN}-${PV}
gnome-base/gconf/gconf-2.3.3.ebuild:P=${PN}-${PV}
Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-08 05:21:01 UTC
'should not' , you can see we can.

It works fine and we have never heard anyone having problems with it, but for the sake of esthetics (which i value more than anything)  and policy never-to-be-broken-for-a-good-reason i added some lines to 2.3.3 to be compliant.