From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12747 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jul 2003 14:55:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 956 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 14:55:56 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: Troy Dack Cc: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <3F018F85.9010606@gentoo.org> References: <20030701025824.64ecc18a.seemant@gentoo.org> <3F018F85.9010606@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1057069671.21908.18.camel@rattus.Localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 01 Jul 2003 22:27:51 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage X-Archives-Salt: bbfb2996-d065-4faf-9c4e-e3ba32238a34 X-Archives-Hash: c16390aaea090025154457794569d581 This is the reason that ufed has become so popular, and I think necessary - the complexity is getting too much. Would a ufed like utility for make.conf be a better approach? I am not so keen on spawning a number of small bit files for a make.cond.d as that does not fix the managebility issue - you will have to edit many files in turn, instead of just one file every time. BillK On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:41, Troy Dack wrote: > Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >Before I go and invalidate a bug, I thought I might take the idea around here to see if it has any merit in terms of usefulness/interest. > > > >The idea stems from the fact that etc-updating a make.conf file can be a bit of a stressful event. And as portage's set of features grows, so too will the size of the make.conf file. I get the impression that the make.conf file is a little hard to parse, with the huge comment blocks etc etc. So my proposal is this: a make.conf.d directory which contains files for each section of the make.conf: use, flags, fetch, packagevars. > > > Nice idea, something that I have thought about before. > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list