Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf

["C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>]

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On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:46:58 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> wrote:

> As I said in another post, I am still using a make.conf on some of
> my systems that was originally from portage 1.8 or there abouts.
> As long as you keep make.globals up to date, it should not be an
> issue.

Well mine isn't quite as old as yours, but is still fairly old now. I really
have no problem interactively merging them, and it takes little time.
However since the mini-crusade on it, I thought it to be a decent suggestion
for perhaps a future version of baselayout? Maybe as Chris suggested for it,
pop the complete make.conf.example into the stages, with a little note
somewhere like "copy this to make.conf and uncomment as necessary, or if
you're comfortable, create your own based on the available variables".

 To be honest, I haven't changed mine once it was set, except to merge in
the new comments, and haven't excluded it simply to keep track of the
changes, which I could just as easily do watching a diff roll by of a
make.conf.example. Also, it's got easily twice the config areas of lilo, and
y'all provide an example for that.

 Either way, I don't really feel strongly enough about it, it was just an
idea I had to make peace in both camps so we could get on to bickering about
something new:)




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