Bug 253189

Summary: pkg(8) would ideally namespace its environment variables
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Robert Watson <rwatson>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-pkg (Nobody) <pkg>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Some People    
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Robert Watson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-02 23:24:09 UTC 
This is a feature request:

The pkg(8) tool supports a number of environmental variables, including IGNORE_OSVERSION. It would be helpful if they had a common prefix that placed them in a more unique namespace, to avoid collisions with environmental variables used for other software. For example, PKG_IGNORE_OSVERSION.
Comment 1 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-11-08 13:18:53 UTC 
over to the right maintainer
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-11-28 06:27:09 UTC 
^Triage: this is not about the package building machines.