Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> In the non-snippet method proposed, there is no way for the
> package maintainer to override project defaults yet cater user set
> variable settings, since the information is lost.
You're not trying very hard to look from both sides: whether the default
value comes from the environment or from an included Makefile, in both
cases the user can override it with command-line arguments.
Granted it means that dpkg-buildpackage would have to pass user-overriden
flags on the command line instead of using the environment, but that can
be done if people really want this possibility.
So the policy would mandate a set of variables that could be communicated
either via the environment or via the command-line depending on how
authoritative the user wants to be.
That would be fine for me too.
Cheers,
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