On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 22:56, Aron Griffis wrote: > Somebody mentioned that it would be possible to consolidate the comments > to make.globals, and leave make.conf uncommented. I think that would be > fine. Alternatively, I'd just leave the situation as-is. I'm fairly agnostic on whether or not make.conf should be broken into pieces. Personally, I'm quite happy w/ a single file, but I wouldn't complain about a make.conf.d directory. I do want to argue against moving the comments from make.conf to make.globals, however. Given the standard Gentoo policy that users should never make changes to make.globals, I don't think it would make sense for us to tell the same users: "Just look in make.globals to see what you can do w/ make.conf". I think that such a plan would lead to a lot more users editing make.globals directly. I also _like_ having the comments in make.conf. As it is the first part of portage that our users encounter, I think it behooves us to document it as well as possible. (That said, I do realize that we do have a very nice make.conf man page, so the comments in /etc/make.conf are not entirely necessary.) Well past my bedtime, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear