Support for readable configuration file

[hololeap]

I think it would be a good idea going forward to have a readable configuration file for hackport, for instance TOML. I personally like TOML because it was designed to be used for configuration files and there are Haskell libraries for parsing it.

[ezzieyguywuf]

I'm a fan of config-schema, as it is lightweight and gets the job done admiringly.

However, if someone were to submit a solution using TOML (or YAML or whatever) I don't feel strongly enough about it to make a big fuss.

I do agree that some configurability (maybe just an environment variable?) would be helpful.

[pajot]

+1 for configurability. It would be nice to tell hackport into which overlay it should place the ebuild it generates.

[ezzieyguywuf]

+1 for configurability. It would be nice to tell hackport into which overlay it should place the ebuild it generates.

It's interesting, hackport make-ebuild does allow you to specify the package category (in fact it insists upon it), but hackport merge does not for some reason.