Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] --config-root command-line option

2006-11-17 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: And last but not least a CLI option is bound to emerge, but this feature can also be useful for other tools. Checking an env var in the config class would enable it implicitly for all users of portage.py, without it everyone

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] --config-root command-line option

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Marius Mauch wrote: I prefer to have one way to do things, and the system for variables worked quite well so far. Adding CLI overrides on top of that seems not only redundant to me but also potentially confusing (which vars have CLI overrides? where in the incremental