Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:06:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <199808301906.TAA28102@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <19980830011957.12607@futuresouth.com> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Aug 30, 98 01:19:57 am"
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> On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 05:35:27PM +0000, Adam David woke me up to tell me:
> > > If others share this view, perhaps we should work towards providing a
> > > mechanism for our user community to configure how the system src trees
> > > are built that is completely localized to the source files we wish to
> > > target.
> >
> > How about /etc/make/{ports,src}.conf or similar.
>
> God, I'm not a conservative purist, but, umm...
> Especially if these are just affecting ports|src, how about
> /usr/local/etc or the like?
> Or for that matter, /usr/src/make.conf and /usr/ports/make.conf?
Read-only filesystems, but then /etc might also be read-only. So yes, another
location would make sense. It's not the location that counts, but rather the
core idea behind the suggestion.
--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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