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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:57:28 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf
Message-ID:  <200801250857.28585.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <47979774.5040205@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <47949811.1080505@raad.tartu.ee> <6BA87BDA-FFAC-4329-B720-98666204FB3F@khera.org> <47979774.5040205@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 23 January 2008 02:37:24 pm Doug Barton wrote:
> Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> > I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about putting 
> > all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too?
> 
> One could argue that they didn't need to be moved at all. One of the 
> rationales at the time was that we didn't want the knobs for the base to 
> affect the ports.

Correct, and /etc/src.conf is optional.  It is a good place to put settings
that you want to only affect compiles in /usr/src and not affect building
apps from ports, standalone compiles, etc.

-- 
John Baldwin



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