On Monday 04 May 2009 08:35:18 Guillem Jover wrote: I like this proposal. A small nit: > ,-- /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk > # distro defaults > FOO := distro Please be sure to use FOO = bar instead of ":=", unless you have determined that you really wanted ":=". In most cases it won't make a difference, but in some it does, and then it would behave contrary to how make usually treats variables.