[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man pages: note that make.conf can be a directory (463266)

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

Zac Medico posted on Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:52:42 -0800 as excerpted:

>> I believe that's why I chose to stick with a make.conf file that simply
>> sourced a bunch of other files, instead of simply making it a directory
>> and sticking all those other files in the dir, when I first read about
>> the possibility.  I have scripts myself that simply source make.conf,
>> that I'd have to rewrite with a for loop to process a directory.  It's
>> not hard to do, but people haven't had to worry about it and so they
>> haven't.  If people aren't thinking about that when they up and make
>> make.conf a directory, they might well wish they had! =8^0
> 
> Why don't you use 'portageq envvar'?

Thanks for the hint.  I will likely use it. =:^)

Which hints at half the answer to your question; I didn't really know 
about it.  The other half of the answer is simple.  It was never needed 
before, as sourcing make.conf always "just worked".  Now that it's 
needed... Thanks again!  =:^)

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