Zac Medico wrote: > What is the best way to propagate information about these two > variable types? For example, we can have a list of variable names > stored in a new variable called "COLON_SEPARATED" that will reside > in either the profiles or /etc/env.d/ itself. Variable names not > listed in COLON_SEPARATED can be assumed to be space separated. > Does anyone have any ideas to share about how this information > should be propagated?
Considering that some pretty critical variables (like PATH) are amongst these I would prefer them to be in /etc/env.d. I wouldn't like it when my box is totally screwed just because PORTDIR doesn't point at my portage tree for the moment. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
