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

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 01/07/2003 at 17:49:23(+0200), Josep Sanjuas used 2.2K just to say:
> It'd also make portage easier to maintain, because for example, if
> I want to change the disftile or rsync mirrors then I can edit
> /etc/make.conf.f/fetch, or whatever its name would be, instead of finding the
> appropiate vars in the big make.conf.

So you'd actually have to find the appropriate vars in *all* those files. I'd
definitely not look in a file named "fetch" (since rsyncing hardly has anything
to do with fetching, considering what "emerge --fetch" does) for the means to
set my rsync server which only proves my point - you (or I if all gentoo devs
think like you) would first look in the wrong file. So every time I want to
change a var, I'll have to think where it might be in all those files.
Personally, I find looking for text in *one* file much easier when compared to
grepping a directory and THEN editing a file (and then running the tool to
mangle my files or "cat * > ../make.conf" or whatever).

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