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

[Michał Górny]

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?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny