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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] per-runlevel make.conf settings
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:31:29
Message-Id: 200411101331.24196.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] per-runlevel make.conf settings by Brian Harring
1 On Wednesday 10 November 2004 13:21, Brian Harring wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 01:36, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 16:26, Aron Griffis wrote:
4 > > > Aaron Walker wrote: [Tue Nov 09 2004, 05:26:28AM EST]
5 > > >
6 > > > > Comments/suggestions/flames?
7 > > >
8 > > > It's a lot easier to override make.conf via environment variables.
9 > > > All the variables either directly override or augment when they're
10 > > > in the environment.
11 > >
12 > > Alternatively you could use /etc/portage/bashrc
13 >
14 > That's not going to fly for most feature tweaks, added, make.conf
15 > defines a fair amount of python specific vars that bashrc knows nothing
16 > off. Fex, doesn't do you a lot of good to be tweaking
17 > FEATURES="userpriv" in bashrc- the bash process is already running as
18 > root at that point.
19
20 I don't see why you would want to change this kind of variables based on a
21 runlevel. In such cases I think an emerge wrapper is probably most
22 suited.
23
24 Paul
25
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27 Paul de Vrieze
28 Gentoo Developer
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