| Summary: | [Tracker] Packages using ${EDITOR} at build time | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | flameeyes |
| Priority: | High | Keywords: | Tracker |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 286017, 294759, 294760, 294762, 294764, 294766 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
Looks like all blocking bugs have been fixed. Closing. |
Some packages are doing things like "econf --with-editor=${EDITOR}", thus creating an implicit (i.e. missing from RDEPEND) dependency on the ${EDITOR} package. If that editor package is later removed, or for binpkgs installed on another system, breakage will result. Solution: There is now a package app-editors/gentoo-editor. This will install an auxiliary /usr/libexec/gentoo-editor script that calls ${EDITOR} (determined from the environment or from the system profile) at run time. Necessary ebuild changes: - Add app-editors/gentoo-editor to {,R}DEPEND. - Specify /usr/libexec/gentoo-editor instead of ${EDITOR}. See >=app-admin/sudo-1.7.2_p1-r1 for an example ebuild.