From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 30 12:07:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22410 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22398 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@veda.is) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA28102; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:06:18 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199808301906.TAA28102@veda.is> Subject: Re: make.conf In-Reply-To: <19980830011957.12607@futuresouth.com> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Aug 30, 98 01:19:57 am" To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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