unfortunately people seem intent on doing things like: MAKEOPTS=-j1 this is no good i know a lot of gnome packages do things like: MAKEOPTS="$MAKEOPTS -j1" and while i disagree with it, it certainly makes things simpler (otherwise they'd have to define custom src_compile, etc...) so repoman should search only for MAKEOPTS where it is set and not incrementally so
After multiple rereads of this request, I finally understood what was requested here: redefinition of MAKEOPTS in *global* scope! Example for it is [1] I will send a query to QA team if this is acceptable code? To find most of such usage in tree, I used: grep -r . -e '^MAKEOPTS' --include="*.ebuild" [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/50e9a89/sci-chemistry/molmol/molmol-2k_p2-r6.ebuild#L52
