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

[Spider <spider@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 02:58:24 -0700
Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> 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.
> 

O have to disagree/agree.
you can already do "source /some/other/place/useflags"   and declare
local USE flags there.. 
or, as I have mine structured:

GNOME="gnome esound gtk gtk2"
KDE="-kde -arts -qt" 
CRYPT="crypt ssl gpg ldap" 
USE="${GNOME} ${KDE} ${CRYPT} ipv6"


if you take care to re-define variables, and add a nice blank line
before, then etc-update won't barf on the config and think you changed
as much, meaning merge will be simpler.


So in this term, I'm against doing any modifications to the current
system, theres little need to do so, and to split configuration from
documentation is a bad thing in a configfile of this sort.


//Spider


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