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disi
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 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:19 am Post subject: Portage changes advertised? |
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How do people know, if something changes in portage?
Most recently I noticed that 'make.conf' is going to move into '/etc/portage', through Gentoo wiki where some developers move the files in there?
Then I had an ebuild which didn't even take Variables from /etc/make.conf any more but /etc/portage/make.conf only (wasn't official).
This is a major thing in my opinion and I haven't read anything on www.gentoo.org, Planet Gentoo/Larry, Gentoo Linux News (RSS) 
The change from /etc/portage/package.keywords to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords was also sneaky, if that is even the official way?
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Etal
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Nothing is really changing. Portage would read in /etc/portage/make.conf for many years already, and there are no plans to make it stop reading /etc/make.conf.
The only thing that is "changing" is that new stages will now have the default make.conf in /etc/portage, and thus it will now be the new preferred location.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Portage changes advertised? |
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| disi wrote: | | How do people know, if something changes in portage? |
With every release something changes. Read portages NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES for the more interesting stuff. And before make.conf's old location stops being supported there will be enough noise. Also Portage can just keep telling you to migrate to a new location until you do.
| disi wrote: | Most recently I noticed that 'make.conf' is going to move into '/etc/portage', through Gentoo wiki where some developers move the files in there?
Then I had an ebuild which didn't even take Variables from /etc/make.conf any more but /etc/portage/make.conf only (wasn't official). |
An ebuild reading make.conf is severely broken either way. |
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