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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:19 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into |
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> make.conf just to notice (again) that there are 14 (in words: fourteen) |
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> different make.conf files there, with almost all of them just differing |
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> in CFLAGS and CHOST (only exception is make.conf.mac which isn't used |
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> anymore in any way AFAICT). |
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Where are these files that you're even talking about? |
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> From my POV those vars should be set in the profiles instead, and a |
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> quick scan shows that indeed most (maybe all? didn't count them) |
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> profiles set them already, so there isn't really a point in having them |
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> in make.conf too, except to make it easy for users to change them. For |
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> CHOST this seems to be a bad idea, not sure about CFLAGS. |
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Well, the stages have a make.conf that is catalyst generated. |
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> So what's the general opinion about this? Having all these different |
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> files makes it harder to add config changes, not by much but noticably, |
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> so personally I'd like to get rid of them, but if there is a good |
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> reason for them to stay I can live with that. |
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Without knowing which files these are, I cannot comment further. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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