From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31348 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jul 2003 16:32:58 -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 3234 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 16:32:58 -0000 From: Toby Dickenson Reply-To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com To: Josep Sanjuas , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:32:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030701025824.64ecc18a.seemant@gentoo.org> <200307011505.02533.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> <20030701174923.35cefb97.kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com> In-Reply-To: <20030701174923.35cefb97.kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307011732.56525.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage X-Archives-Salt: d2dd74f3-f54e-4b2b-a07e-196c627a9dde X-Archives-Hash: 8e36188c28a37ea41afa47a5a531d264 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list