On 02/16/04 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > I agree more options are needed, but i think a minimal set of defaults > that user can't change is a good thing (there is no point to change > most of options that are currently default in fact). Also, options > like verbosity and progress meter make more sense when controlled on > command line using -v/-q and --nospinner from emerge than in a > configuration file. So imho, RSYNC_OPTIONS should more be called > RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTIONS, with default well documented so that we know what > are options really left to customization. > > Another approach would be to have an /etc/portage/rsync.conf with > detailed option like the ones currently in make.conf, but more > numerous. This would ensure that only non-default options are modified > by user, and would solve the transition problem (because new config > files are always merged whereas make.conf updates are often ignored). > Or does this sound too "make.conf.d-ish"?
One reason why I asked this is because I'm working on `emerge --sync` support for overlays and using RSYNC_OPTIONS (or RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTIONS) would make that a lot easier to implement different options for different trees. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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