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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:22:31
Message-Id: 20051115201919.11d52815@sven.genone.homeip.net
1 Hi,
2
3 Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into
4 make.conf just to notice (again) that there are 14 (in words: fourteen)
5 different make.conf files there, with almost all of them just differing
6 in CFLAGS and CHOST (only exception is make.conf.mac which isn't used
7 anymore in any way AFAICT).
8 From my POV those vars should be set in the profiles instead, and a
9 quick scan shows that indeed most (maybe all? didn't count them)
10 profiles set them already, so there isn't really a point in having them
11 in make.conf too, except to make it easy for users to change them. For
12 CHOST this seems to be a bad idea, not sure about CFLAGS.
13 So what's the general opinion about this? Having all these different
14 files makes it harder to add config changes, not by much but noticably,
15 so personally I'd like to get rid of them, but if there is a good
16 reason for them to stay I can live with that.
17
18 Marius
19
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22
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files? "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files? Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o>