Re: [gentoo-dev] Booting in half the time?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 04:09, William Kenworthy wrote:
> This is one of the downsides of a distributed configuration system -
> items exist for a long time before anyone stumbles over them.
>
> Is there a consolidated list of every item one can configure on a gentoo
> system and a short description that includes what file they hide in?  I
> am thinking of something like a consolidated
> conf.d/*;rc.conf;make.conf;make.profile;... with a short description of
> each item.
>

I did post a big announcement to -dev back then ....

> I guess I could do this locally by just cat'ting the files together and
> regularyly diff'ing against this to see whats changed.
>

Well, in theory this is one of the things that CONFIG_PROTECT should
be of some help - you should see if new conf items is added ...


Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa