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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:59:46 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Comments on sys.mk change to make /etc/make.conf optional
Message-ID:  <p0510156eb8b5dd5dbb37@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020313.211252.132928159.imp@village.org>
References:  <20020313.211252.132928159.imp@village.org>

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At 9:12 PM -0700 3/13/02, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>I'm posting this here because it is a fairly fundamental change
>to the system.  It makes /etc/make.conf optional, for shared
>environments that might want to have different settings for
>different users.  I used __MAKE_CONF to try not to pollute things.

I like the idea.  I would prefer a different name for the variable.
Something without the leading __ , because to me the leading
underscores would imply a name that a user would *not* define.

BSD_MAKE_CONF ?  FBSD_MAKE_CONF ?

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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