-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote:
> 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). > 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. > 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. Speaking for the sparc swamp(tm) i wouldn't mind if CHOST went away from make.conf* since people thinking "ohhh i have a sparc64" and modifying them only causes trouble in the mixed user/kernel land we have. - -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDe2n1V3G/IBCn/JARAjqEAJ99gBPAeVatWj0lgDclU3xYW6f3DwCePIwT QswmG4b9eHFV48/APSdiJXw= =SnPs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
