Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

[Zac Medico]

On 08/09/2013 02:32 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just a quick one.
>
> Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed
> by portage ebuild);
>
> COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *\$py.class"
> UNINSTALL_IGNORE="/lib/modules/*"
>
> COLLISION_IGNORE specifies files that will be ignored by
> FEATURES=collision-protect when they exist but are not owned by any
> package. UNINSTALL_IGNORE specifies files that will not be unmerged.
>
> By keeping those two in portage, we're basically binding them to
> version of portage installed. If we need to ignore more files, we need
> to request our users to upgrade portage.
>
> That's why I'm thinking of moving them to profiles/base/make.defaults.
> From what I've tested, the setting there will override make.globals
> and therefore the change could be effective from day one, without
> the need to upgrade portage.
>
> I feel like those variables are much alike the QA variables that we
> keep in the profiles.
>
> What do you think?

I guess it's fine. I would do it like this in order to respect the
portage default setting:

COLLISION_IGNORE="${COLLISION_IGNORE} new stuff"
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Thanks,
Zac