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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:56:52 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:

> 
> Nikola Lecic wrote:
> 
> >> So the /etc/make.conf option is better.
> >
> >  It is definitively the most universal and IMHO it should appear
> >  in the Handbook.
> 
> 	I try to avoid setting things in make.conf that do not need to
> be set there.  Why?  Because - as far as I know - they will apply to
> _everything_ that uses the standard "make" infrastructure.
>
Not if you define them conditionally as Roland suggested - portsconf
is equivalent to this.