Re: [gentoo-dev] Interest Check: Dynamic config files for portage

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 01/07/2003 at 02:58:24(-0700), Seemant Kulleen used 1.8K just to say:
> The idea stems from the fact that etc-updating a make.conf file can be a bit
> of a stressful event.

I used to feel the same way. Then I uncommented the 'diff_command="vim -d
%file1 %file2"' line in /etc/etc-update.conf and I stopped caring.

I, however, am not sure that distributing an /etc/make.conf is even necessary.
Put up an /etc/make.conf.sample instead of make.conf, like some packages do,
and let the user look at the sample file and set their own /etc/make.conf.

Which sounds very similar to what sf@×××××.de (sorry, no names, no signatures
there) commented - leave make.conf alone and put the comments in make.globals.
That should do the job.

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