Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage

[Owen Gunden <ogunden@stwing.upenn.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:32:56PM +0100, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 16:49, Josep Sanjuas wrote:
> 
> > I think there could be more advantages.
> 
> they dont seem very compelling.....

There is one compelling advantage that I believe was intended by the
original poster.  That is this: in the current situation, when I upgrade
baselayout I get a new make.conf which I have to merge by hand.  In my
experience this is definitely the hardest file in /etc to merge because of
its size and the amount of customization I've done to it.  If it were split
into separate files, it would be easier to see where the new stuff is.
Also, I would be familiar with the particular sections that I'd made
changes to, so I could simply copy the maintainers version of any files
that I know I haven't changed.

I may be a special case, though; I can't use etc-update because it has IMHO
a horrendous interface.  

I'm skeptical about a configuration tool to fix make.conf automatically,
because I've seen so many such things go wrong.  On the other hand, ufed is
indispensible, and if such a utility were as easy-to-use and
easy-to-know-what-it's-doing as ufed I would definitely consider using it.

Owen
searching his pockets for 2 pennies..

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