From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>
To: Josep Sanjuas <kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com>, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:32:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307011732.56525.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030701174923.35cefb97.kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com>
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 16:49, Josep Sanjuas wrote:
> I think there could be more advantages.
they dont seem very compelling.....
> It would make make.conf faster to
> parse from scripts,
There isnt much to be saved.....
$ time bash /etc/make.conf
real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
> It'd also make portage easier to maintain, because for
> example, if I want to change the disftile or rsync mirrors then I can edit
> /etc/make.conf.f/fetch, or whatever its name would be, instead of finding
> the appropiate vars in the big make.conf.
And editing a 250 line file is hard because......
> In the files, all flags could
> have their detailed descriptions, so that you wouldn't need to open another
> file eg a make.conf.help.
I agree that splitting the documentation into make.conf.help would be a step
backwards.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-01 9:58 [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage Seemant Kulleen
2003-07-01 10:32 ` Ferris McCormick
2003-07-01 10:35 ` Rigo Ketelings
2003-07-01 10:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " sf
2003-07-01 11:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Georgi Georgiev
2003-07-01 11:34 ` Lisa M.
2003-07-01 12:12 ` Stewart Honsberger
2003-07-01 13:41 ` Troy Dack
2003-07-01 14:07 ` Lisa M.
2003-07-01 14:27 ` William Kenworthy
2003-07-01 15:37 ` Alex Veber
2003-07-01 22:25 ` Troy Dack
2003-07-01 22:49 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-07-01 14:05 ` Toby Dickenson
2003-07-01 15:49 ` Josep Sanjuas
2003-07-01 16:32 ` Toby Dickenson [this message]
2003-07-01 22:29 ` Owen Gunden
2003-07-02 9:57 ` Toby Dickenson
2003-07-01 22:57 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-07-01 14:12 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-07-01 18:13 ` Svyatogor
2003-07-01 14:49 ` Svyatogor
2003-07-02 0:40 ` Robert Bragg
2003-07-02 2:56 ` Aron Griffis
2003-07-02 3:03 ` Aron Griffis
2003-07-02 3:51 ` Grant Goodyear
2003-07-03 5:36 ` Kumba
2003-07-03 6:04 ` Owen Gunden
2003-07-04 14:12 ` Spider
2003-07-04 23:38 ` Troy Dack
2003-07-05 17:38 ` Devdas Bhagat
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