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]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEH52w/ejvha5XGaMRAnM6AJ9fTcydIqjkuXcrr1lllIcYd+unUQCgt0jJ > B9xus7XtBMo1bRwWYpu4hC0= > =IPBf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- tvali (e-mail: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; msn: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; icq: "317-492-912") I like net more than life, cause if i do something wrong, then people in net will tell me that i do, so that i can fix it -- people in life will tell others that i do. -- [email protected] mailing list
