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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:27:19 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make.conf 
Message-ID:  <199808301927.VAA13673@gratis.grondar.za>

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> If /etc/make.conf is split at all then it should be split into:
> 
>    /usr/src/conf.mk      - configuration frobs exclusively for /usr/src
> 
>    /usr/ports/conf.mk    - configuration frobs exclusively for /usr/ports.
> 
>    /usr/share/mk/conf.mk - stuff truly global to any invocation of Bmake
>                            e.g. variables you want both src and ports
>                            (and so on) to get as a base set before
>                            potentially laying their own on top.

Opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one, nobody wants to know
about anyone else's.

Here's mine FWIW :-).

I like the above breakdown, but not all the locations - these files
smell like configuration stuff to me; that is /etc fodder.

/usr/src/conf.mk - OK.
/usr/ports/conf.mk - OK.
/usr/share/mk/conf.mk - Buried too deep in the "WTF was that file again??"
pile. I reckon that should be in /etc, and called /etc/global.mk

M
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