Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Todd Wright]

> > Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
> > benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
> > to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
> > to implement.
> >
> > It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
> > subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
> > as simple to implement.
> >
>
> I do agree that it would be nice to add individual files to
> CONFIG_PROTECT, but I also think a 'CATEGORIES' variable has merit. This
> allows the separation of stock gentoo categories from custom ones. For
> example, in make.conf,

I'd have to agree with the CATEGORIES variable.

CONFIG_PROTECT is not going to help you.  This isnt a config file to be
protected. It is the "EMERGE RSYNC" that is going to overwrite the
categories file and theres not a lot you can do about that, as it simply
mirrors the official portage tree.  Adding a CATEGORIES shell variable in
make.conf seems an elegent way to solve this, but then my opinions dont seem
to carry much weight around here.

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