bazel-contrib / bazel-contrib/rules_python
sphinxdocs: allow repo rules to document their environment variables
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Description
Starting with Bazel 7.1, repository rules can use `repository_ctx.getenv()` to get environment variable values, and they no longer have to be listed in the `environ` attribute of the repo rule.
This makes them hidden from docgen.
A directive or option should be added so that repo rule docs can describe what environment variables they use.
```
:::{repo-rule}
:uses-envvars:
:::
:::{uses-envvar} env-var-name
Description of how its used.
:::
```
In all cases, it xrefs to `.. envvar` directives
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