Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Zach Forrest]

Bob Phan wrote:
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>
>
> Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
> benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
> to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
> to implement.
>
> It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
> subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
> as simple to implement.
>

I do agree that it would be nice to add individual files to 
CONFIG_PROTECT, but I also think a 'CATEGORIES' variable has merit. This 
allows the separation of stock gentoo categories from custom ones. For 
example, in make.conf, you specify the USE variable you want for your 
system while make.defaults holds the profile default USE variables. I 
prefer to have my configuration in a standard place (e.g. 
/etc/make.globals or /etc/make.conf).

Let me know what you think.

Zach