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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:49:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030701224905.GE11227%chutz@gg3.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F018F85.9010606@gentoo.org>

On 01/07/2003 at 23:41:25(+1000), Troy Dack used 1.8K just to say:
> 2. How many users read a sample file and then go and edit the real 
> config? I generally copy the .sample to the .config and then edit it, 
> with all comments in place.

There is nothing bad with that either, is there? The point is that if there is
no make.conf in the distribution, there would be nothing to update with
etc-update. You like the comments - you're very welcome to keep them. The
problem we were facing was that etc-update was becoming difficult to use on
make.conf.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-01 22:49 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2003-07-01 14:05 ` Toby Dickenson
2003-07-01 15:49   ` Josep Sanjuas
2003-07-01 16:32     ` Toby Dickenson
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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