Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:33:19 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'buildworld' not always pulling in /etc/src.conf Message-ID: <AANLkTimlB7S-7-n4C85-V4_vbuB8XqUxcAYtVksNHY4p@mail.gmail.com>
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>Wouldn't it be great, if /etc/make.conf disappeared completely? > >To be replaced by /etc/src.conf for buildworld/kernel stuff. > >And /etc/ports.conf for ports building stuff. > Er, and replaced by what for using make on the many things that are neither in the base system, nor in FreeBSD Ports? The world of software is a big place. >With no linkage of any kind between the two, with all the "magic" hidden in >/usr/ports/Mk and /usr/share/Mk. > >Maybe I'm dreaming, but wouldn't it make things a lot simpler in the long >run? Just because you have a make.conf, doesn't mean that you can't have a ports.conf, or that you must continue to use src.conf in the way that it is used now. b.
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