Is this good to create a new file for 2 variables?

Maybe it would be more simpler if all happened with one switch?

2006/3/21, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Marius Mauch wrote:
> > Don't think I have to reiterate the whole story of having arch specific
> > make.conf files and why that sucks, but just had an idea how to solve
> > the problem other than removing them completely:
> > Just move the arch specific crap (CHOST and CFLAGS) to a separate file,
> > and reintegrate it at install time. So make.conf.x86 in svn would only
> > contain CHOST/CFLAGS and related comments while make.conf (which
> > currently is only a fallback) contains the portage relevant parts, and
> > the ebuild just concatenates them in src_compile to create a single
> > arch specific make.conf.example.
>
> That seems a lot better than the current situation.
>
> > First I also considerd using the "source" instruction instead of
> > reintegrating the files, but that doesn't really work for an example
> > file that's mainly intended to be read by the user.
> >
> > Of course removing the arch specific files completely and only have
> > the fallback make.conf is still an option, but would need a discussion
> > with releng and the docs team probably.
>
> Perhaps it's better to maintain such arch specific information somewhere else 
> such as the handbook.  It'd be nice to keep the docs included with portage as 
> arch independent as possible.
>
> > Any objections against doing this for the next releases?
>
> I'd like to do this (at least the first option) for the next release.
>
> Zac
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