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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] importsettings vs importconfigsettings?
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:56:14AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whats the difference between the import-settings and import-configsettings
> scripts? I looked at the source in portage.py but I couldn't see any
> difference.
> 
> Pete

The import-settings can be overridden by an environment variable, but the
import-configsettings ignore any environment variables with the same name
and get their value straight from make.conf and make.defaults.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.