From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17689 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jul 2003 22:57:55 -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 25872 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 22:57:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:57:52 +0900 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030701225752.GF11227%chutz@gg3.net> References: <20030701025824.64ecc18a.seemant@gentoo.org> <200307011505.02533.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> <20030701174923.35cefb97.kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030701174923.35cefb97.kl4rkmail@jazzfree.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage X-Archives-Salt: 77f3bdeb-4d3a-4992-850b-4ecbd9694ff9 X-Archives-Hash: fc5ac05a8eb261134deab46396d0ef32 On 01/07/2003 at 17:49:23(+0200), Josep Sanjuas used 2.2K just to say: > 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. So you'd actually have to find the appropriate vars in *all* those files. I'd definitely not look in a file named "fetch" (since rsyncing hardly has anything to do with fetching, considering what "emerge --fetch" does) for the means to set my rsync server which only proves my point - you (or I if all gentoo devs think like you) would first look in the wrong file. So every time I want to change a var, I'll have to think where it might be in all those files. Personally, I find looking for text in *one* file much easier when compared to grepping a directory and THEN editing a file (and then running the tool to mangle my files or "cat * > ../make.conf" or whatever). -- / Georgi Georgiev / He who is flogged by fate and laughs the / \ chutz@gg3.net \ louder is a masochist. \ / +81(90)6266-1163 / / -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list