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From: Mikael Hallendal <micke@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database?
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:02:30
Message-Id: 1007618475.6862.3.camel@fry
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database? by Daniel Robbins
1 mån 2001-12-03 klockan 17.48 skrev Daniel Robbins:
2 > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:06:53PM -0800, Zach Forrest wrote:
3
4 > > It may, then, also make sense to give a little more structure to the
5 > > optimization settings. For example:
6 > >
7 > > optimization_var={
8 > > "host":"i686",
9 > > "chost":"i686-pc-linux-gnu",
10 > > "cflags":"-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe",
11 > > "cxxflags":"-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"}
12 >
13 > It would make my life easier if we would use python-based configuration
14 > files. Right now, they're parsed. But being able to define dictionaries
15 > is really appealing to me right now :)
16
17 The problem with this is that it's harder to edit in a regular browser,
18 not much hard but still, somewhat harder.
19 Also, it's quite nice to be able to override with regular environment
20 variables. I guess this can be done no matter..
21
22 About using GConf, imho it's actually not a totally bad idea. It is
23 thought of as being for the entire system (will never happend though).
24 Currently it has some weird deps (like gnome-libs->gtk+->X11) which is
25 no good.
26
27 It does not store it's configuration in a binary database, it's in
28 xml-files in /etc/gconf. Anyway, I'm more in favor of something that's
29 easily editable in a normal text editor.
30
31 Regards,
32 Mikael Hallendal
33
34 --
35 Mikael Hallendal http://micke.hallendal.net/
36 Stockholm, Sweden Cell: +46 (0)709 718 918

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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database? Zach Forrest <diatribe@××××.ca>