-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and >>overridden/added to >>globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use. >> > > The handbook > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 > says they come from base, default-linux, default-linux/x86 and > default-linux/x86/2004.3 (as an example). default-linux is empty (which > is not confusing, as it may not be empty in the future) but USE settings > in default-linux/x86 are identical with > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/ (meaning the file > make.defaults in both directories). But are they identical _always_? The > latter directory is the target of the symlink > /etc/make/profile, but what about the former?
They are cascading. AFAIK, if your symlink points to default-linux/x86/2005.1, you'll also pull in everything in default-linux/x86 and default-linux. So why are they identical ... ? Good question. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled ] [Location ] :: [Israel ] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5 ] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTsG1A7Qvptb0LKURAkq7AJ9wKXd2eZPqL/kN1DTeTOM7nOB1AQCdEOSm EuLoyLWhoQP8+2YAxCC3xQs= =G51S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
