[gentoo-dev] Re: News item 1: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Zac Medico posted on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:29:36 -0700 as excerpted:

> I would recommend to simply use /etc/make.conf alone until the legacy
> tools that you use catch up. We have to change the default location in
> the stages in order to expose the bugs so they can get fixed.

I posted to the portage-dev list about this so you probably already know,
but for others, particularly users, following this transition thread:

Gentoo's bash-completion breaks when make.conf is in /etc/portage.  Bug
filed back in early July and there's a simple enough patch, but
app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp has only the shell-tools herd, no dedicated
maintainer, and 13 open bugs including this one, all apparently portage
(or gentoolkit) related, with the last release in 2010 (Dec) with
stabilization a month later.  So it's not seeing a lot of movement.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424777

So anyone who depends on tab-completion for their emerge commands, etc,
may want to either hold off on the move or apply the patch manually, until
this is fixed.

FWIW here's the listing of all open app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp bugs:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=app-shells%2Fgentoo-bashcomp

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