From IRC: <fuzzyray> Question, should portageq return default values for variables that are not set in make.conf but are supported by portage? I'm asking because I have a pull request to use EMERGE_LOG_DIR in genlop, but portageq returns nothing if it is not set. <fuzzyray> I can easily add the fallback to the default location of /var/log, but wondering if portageq should already do that <dwfreed> I think it might make sense <fuzzyray> I'm thinking that it should, so that if we do change a default, then the tools don't have to be changed as well (assuming that they are using portageq) <zmedico> fuzzyray: yeah, having portageq return the default sounds reasonble. we can just set that var in make.globals