On Sunday 04 February 2007, Daniel Black wrote:
> Added draft of eclass as savedconfig.eclass. Hope it includes all suggested
> technical options.

save_config should only be called from pkg_preinst or src_install, not both

if this were a src_install function, then you wouldnt need to worry about any 
of the extraneous crap like ROOT/PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT/etc...

> On my todo list is:
> - to move away from cp --parents with something BSD friendly.

the portability eclass has a cp func to address this

> Could consider if anyone is interested:
> - USE=SAVEDCONFIG capitalised so that it looks and is assumed to be
> dominate.
> - pkg_postinst - ewarn "have modified the saved configuration of this
> package. I assume you have set your USE flags to include the appropriate
> dependencies and/or emerged the dependencies already."
> - implement warn_config (though I don't think its really needed)

i wouldnt bother with any of this
-mike

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