Global ports customization

Rodion Novoselov rodion at rndex.ru
Mon Feb 23 14:57:37 PST 2004


On 2004-02-23 at 16:39, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:27:16PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Frankly I don't really see the need.  The problem of /etc/make.conf
> > being used for non-port makes is not significant.
> 
> Not to mention that ports-specific variables can be included
> only when a ports-specific variable is defined, e.g. PORTSDIR.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> wca

It's right. But I'm used to keeping the collection in the non-standard
place and therefore I'm made to define PORTSDIR on my own in the only
possible place - /etc/make.conf. So, again, PORTSDIR will always be
defined :-)


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