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

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@codewordt.co.uk>]

Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> The idea stems from the fact that etc-updating a make.conf file can be a bit of a stressful event.
 > And as portage's set of features grows, so too will the size of the 
make.conf file.

I've always thought that /etc/make.conf should consist of env. variables 
only, have no comments and be generated dynamically not from other 
smaller files but from a utility or tool of some sort.  Currently, the 
size of the make.conf file is huge and doing the following gives the 
essential structure that I'm talking about.

grep -v '#' /etc/make.conf | cat -s > ~/make.conf.basic; more 
~/make.conf.basic

You'll see that this is much more readable and easily editable. 
Comments can be placed in a different file such as /etc/make.conf.help. 
  However, given that this method also results in more than one file it 
also brings about the need for a directory.

I suggest /etc/portage/.  There is already a dir structure for 
/etc/portage/package.unmask.  As a result, it would make sense for all 
portage/gentoo related files to be placed in there.  This would include 
make.conf, rc.conf, help files and any others.

To summarise, directory structure: yes, dynamic: yes, from zillions of 
smaller files: no (that's backward progress).

A few of my thoughts.

With regards.
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