From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: distributions@lists.linux.dev, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: Standardizing NO_NETWORK and USE_SYSTEM_DEPS environment variables
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:50:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9658083.GK2ZErXSoo@nimes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0726076ea438d59d8b7b5d0f44a4ed6ca11d418.camel@gentoo.org>
Michał Górny wrote:
> 2) USE_SYSTEM_DEPS -- if it's set to a non-empty value, it requests that
> the build system does not use any vendored dependency for which it
> supports using a system version instead, and that it links to shared
> libraries whenever possible.
This contradicts the GNU Coding Standards [1]. For GNU packages,
configuration of such things should be done through --with-* and --without-*
options. NOT through environment variables.
Proposing something that contradicts the GNU Coding Standards is a non-starter.
Bruno
[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Configuration.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-23 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-23 13:14 Standardizing NO_NETWORK and USE_SYSTEM_DEPS environment variables Michał Górny
2025-01-23 13:50 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2025-01-23 14:09 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-01-23 14:26 ` Michał Górny
2025-01-23 17:47 ` Bruno Haible
2025-01-23 13:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2025-01-23 14:37 ` Michał Górny
2025-01-23 14:04 ` Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2025-01-23 14:43 ` Michał Górny
2025-01-23 15:19 ` Celeste Liu
2025-01-23 15:38 ` Michał Górny
2025-01-23 16:13 ` Celeste Liu
2025-01-23 19:42 ` Simon Josefsson
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