From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12304 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jul 2003 15:28:22 -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 16985 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 15:28:21 -0000 From: Alex Veber To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:37:58 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <20030701025824.64ecc18a.seemant@gentoo.org> <3F018F85.9010606@gentoo.org> <1057069671.21908.18.camel@rattus.Localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1057069671.21908.18.camel@rattus.Localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307011838.12567.coronalvr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage X-Archives-Salt: 995278b2-a34c-4701-9faa-da5d477bed00 X-Archives-Hash: 78eb3ee340f61273538b610672e3a3bd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:27, William Kenworthy wrote: > This is the reason that ufed has become so popular, and I think > necessary - the complexity is getting too much. Would a ufed like > utility for make.conf be a better approach? I am not so keen on > spawning a number of small bit files for a make.cond.d as that does not > fix the managebility issue - you will have to edit many files in turn, > instead of just one file every time. > > BillK > > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:41, Troy Dack wrote: > > Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > > > >Before I go and invalidate a bug, I thought I might take the idea around > > > here to see if it has any merit in terms of usefulness/interest. > > > > > >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 get the impression that the > > > make.conf file is a little hard to parse, with the huge comment blocks > > > etc etc. So my proposal is this: a make.conf.d directory which > > > contains files for each section of the make.conf: use, flags, fetch, > > > packagevars. > > > > Nice idea, something that I have thought about before. > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list splitting make.conf to many files is not a solution. imho we should create a tool to parse make.conf and change it. that way we leave the choice to the user on how to modiffy his settings. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Aara0Q5UUdinJT4RAv86AKDawnH25KeJBNHTQc9kmA5kSM75AwCgzlS0 kCvCMlFYrwtsrS9Wkov6pC8= =fCXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list