Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:44, Zac Medico wrote: 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. /etc/env.d makes most sense ... we just have to worry about how to handle the

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:44, Zac Medico wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Simon Stelling
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 03:44 schrieb Zac Medico: Hi everyone, Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. The same applies to eselect env. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Zac Medico wrote: We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would make one pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another pass to

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:44:23 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control | the behavior of env-update. I realise GLEP 24 is considered not going very far, but in the interests of what *has* been done on it... Is it worth

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Zac Medico wrote: We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would make

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:44:23 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control | the behavior of env-update. I realise GLEP 24 is considered not going very

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 11 September 2006 03:44, Zac Medico wrote: Hi everyone, Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 03:44, 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

[gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break down into two

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Drake Wyrm
Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break down into two basic types: colon