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[PATCH] gnu: Add distrobox.

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Message #14 received at 59410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz <at> disroot.org>
To: 59410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rekado <at> elephly.net
Subject: [bug#59410] [PATCH] gnu: Add distrobox.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:25:18 +0000

> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the patch.
> 
> I’m always a bit worried when I see the copy-build-system, because the
> lack of a configuration step often means that the tool makes possibly
> invalid assumptions about the runtime environment.
> 
> I see that you’re patching the locations of “podman”, “wget”, and
> “command -v”, but the tools contain even more references, e.g. to
> “curl”, “grep”, “sed”, coreutils, “host-spawn”, “sudo”, “pinentry”,
> “less”, …
> 
> It may be a better idea to wrap all the executables in a reasonable
> default environment.
> 
> What do you think?
It sounds like a good idea.

> -- 
> Ricardo

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