From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8513 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jul 2003 14:32:07 -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 16110 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 14:32:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:13:17 +0000 From: Svyatogor To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030701181317.1651dedd.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <3F0196C4.7000002@codewordt.co.uk> References: <20030701025824.64ecc18a.seemant@gentoo.org> <3F0196C4.7000002@codewordt.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage X-Archives-Salt: 4930334c-6ea7-431c-b080-c727453d15c4 X-Archives-Hash: d4b24cc01d8374346972b909669a5888 On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:12:20 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > 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 suggest /etc/portage/. There is already a dir structure for > /etc/portage/package.unmask. As a result, it would make sense for all > portage/gentoo related files to be placed in there. This would include > make.conf, rc.conf, help files and any others. > > To summarise, directory structure: yes, dynamic: yes, from zillions of > smaller files: no (that's backward progress). > > A few of my thoughts. > I don't actually see how rc.conf comes into game? I don't know about you but my rc.conf has 7 vars set, like font for the console, display manager etc. Nothing to do with portage at all. However I agree with you that generating it from millions of small file is not a sollution of a problem. What would be much better is to have a utility for that. It has been discussed here about two weeks ago. The idea was to have a tool to set all gentoo-specific vars, including ones in make.conf IMHO that's quite a good solution. -- Sergey Kuleshov Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list