On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:05:51AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> as for the patch, i'm of the opinion that make.conf is not for documenting
> random USE_EXPAND-ed variables.
...
> there is the matter of visibility ... we could add a generic pointer to the
> make.conf man page discussing that there are many more variables that might
> impact the build and to look at the man page for the eclasses.
Can I make a possible additional suggestion?
We do already have profiles/${VAR}.desc, describing what the settings
themselves do. Can we augment those files to describe the variable
itself?
Then put a generic note in make.conf about reading those (or something
to build docs from them like the eclass docs).
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Robin Hugh Johnson
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