From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F6E1389E2 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49457E0971; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD71EE096C for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F903405CF for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.494 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.494 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.782, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pO2rPxWF2idB for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A0DB340562 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5QUa-0004Q6-Ff for gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:55:36 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:55:36 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:55:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man pages: note that make.conf can be a directory (463266) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:55:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1419631307-30949-1-git-send-email-zmedico@gentoo.org> <549E573A.3090104@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT 4c6f250) X-Archives-Salt: 3eb3d66f-c74d-4f33-a3a3-5c561bfed5ba X-Archives-Hash: 527236e0b41d91a9022178c5e69fd873 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! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman