From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32094 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Sep 2003 23:56:23 -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 6680 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 23:56:22 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Sat, 6 Sep 03 19:56:22 -0400 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:55:02 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309061848.54494.ellings@kcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200309061848.54494.ellings@kcnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309070855.02490.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: 4021d313-7269-4a2d-9cee-025072f8f5e3 X-Archives-Hash: 5c5c30e747d5ea5ed741c8bcb6d45464 On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:48, Steven Elling wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 13:05, David Sankel wrote: > > 2) make.conf updates to be more automated > > > > Most gentoo users, I believe, modify this file. This specific file > > changes quite often with updates. Since most users only modify the "USE" > > and "CFLAGS" components, having an update that is automatic is plausible. > > This feature is a trade off between the integrity and consistency of the > > system verses end-user maintenance time. > > Requiring portage updates to make.conf at all has always bugged me. The > file is meant to contain custom settings for portage and to append to or > override variables in make.globals and the defaults. It should not hold > all the documentation for make.conf. It should not hold all the > defaults... that's what make.globals and the defaults are for. > > Why is all the documentation on make.conf in make.conf anyway? Shouldn't > it be in make.globals or better yet the man page? > > make.conf is used for system customization and, as such, portage should > leave it alone. When portage is installed on the drive for the first time > it should not create make.conf. Portage should leave it up to the > admin/user of the box to create the file. Damn - right after I made a summary! These are excellent points though. I agree wholeheartedly all the way! Regards, Jason -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list