Bug 553568

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: Enhance portageq to return default values of make.conf variables if unset
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Paul Varner (RETIRED) <fuzzyray>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-06-29 15:53:14 UTC

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