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On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 09:41, Jason Wever wrote: |
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> In the couple runs of test stages I've done on sparc and sparc64, I've |
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> noticed that the make.conf that is in the resulting stage tarballs is very |
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> stripped down and not at all geared towards new users or people not overly |
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> familiar with make.conf. Has anyone seen/fixed this? |
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I did this intentionally -- it has pros and cons. The pros are that it |
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is very easy for people to quickly see what all the critical settings |
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are without wading through tons of comments that are interspersed with |
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uncommented lines -- something I find a bit overwhelming. |
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The cons are that all the comments are gone. However, I really do prefer |
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the lack of clutter and think that the several pages of informational |
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comments in /etc/make.conf really do belong in the new Gentoo Handbook |
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instead, where they will always be available, organized as a reference |
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that doesn't interfere with a user's "real" config. Right now, we have |
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enough /etc/make.conf options that the commented version of the |
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make.conf has really become much too complex. |
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I don't think that /etc/make.conf is the best place to explain important |
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issues relating to the Gentoo install. Better to put all that info in |
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our official documentation, now that we have a Handbook. |
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Well, that's the theory behind the new "lean" make.conf. |
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Daniel |
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