On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:19 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into
> make.conf just to notice (again) that there are 14 (in words: fourteen)
> different make.conf files there, with almost all of them just differing
> in CFLAGS and CHOST (only exception is make.conf.mac which isn't used
> anymore in any way AFAICT).

Where are these files that you're even talking about?

> From my POV those vars should be set in the profiles instead, and a
> quick scan shows that indeed most (maybe all? didn't count them)
> profiles set them already, so there isn't really a point in having them
> in make.conf too, except to make it easy for users to change them. For
> CHOST this seems to be a bad idea, not sure about CFLAGS.

Well, the stages have a make.conf that is catalyst generated.

> So what's the general opinion about this? Having all these different
> files makes it harder to add config changes, not by much but noticably,
> so personally I'd like to get rid of them, but if there is a good
> reason for them to stay I can live with that.

Without knowing which files these are, I cannot comment further.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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