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Allow easier variables overwriting

Closed Administrator requested to merge github/fork/frosas/easier-variables-overwriting into 3.0.0-wip

Created by: frosas

Right now to customize LESS variables there are two options:

  • Edit less/bootstrap.less. This forces the user to modify the Bootstrap source code, but this option is not always available (e.g. when Bootstrap is included through Bower or Composer). Also, changing third party code doesn't seem a very good practice.
  • Copy and edit less/bootstrap.less. Here Bootstrap isn't touched but it requires copying all those imports (and updating their paths), this makes updating a little more painful.

With the proposed changes one can do this:

@import "components/bootstrap/less/variables.less";
@import "variables.less"; // Bootstrap variables overwritten here
@import "components/bootstrap/less/styles.less";

less/bootstrap.less is functionally equivalent to current implementation so it could also be backported to version 2.x.