On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:09:21 -0700
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> wrote:

> Then can we keep all the comments, etc in "make.conf.example" and keep
> make.conf as it is now with catalyst? 
> 
> We make.conf.example is made the new "exhaustive comment" version, then
> this solves the clutter problem and complex catalyst issues and also
> keeps the settings close enough to be useful. For example, the user
> could cp /etc/make.conf.example /etc/make.conf if he wants, or cut and
> paste from one to the other.

That sounds better to me as well.  That way it also accomidates the users
who can't/won't/aren't online when they update packages (think modem users
who fetch all packages to build, and then build).

-- 
Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead