Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to savedconfig.eclass

[Daniel Black]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 04:03:16 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>     Hello developers,
>
> this has annoyed me for a long time.
>
> restore_config() dies when it cannot find a saved config file, while
> later on in any ebuild that uses savedconfig.eclass, it will save the
> config file anyhow. That means it will not use an edited saved config
> file during the first emerge, which is to be expected and should not be
> fatal.
>
> The current forces you to emerge the same ebuild twice using _different_
> USE flags to achieve anything:
>
> 1. USE="-savedconfig" emerge cat/foo
> 2. $EDITOR /etc/portage/savedconfig/cat/foo
> 3. USE="savedconfig" emerge cat/foo
>
> This is quite illogical.


Fixing this is fine my me.

Daniel
(illogical savedconfig.eclass author)