Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge with interacitve use

[Vano D <gentoo-dev@europeansoftware.com>]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 22:36, Panard wrote:
> Le Mardi 29 Avril 2003 22:12, Vano D a écrit :
> | Hi Panard,
> |
> | 	How about adding a little functionality to the script so it keeps which
> | USE vars the user chooses in a file like
> | /var/db/pkg/app-editors/vim-6.1-r21/USECUSTOM (that would be for vim :)?
> | 	I have checked the USE files but they all contain the complete $USE
> | variable when the package was emerged. So maybe if you add the
> | functionality so it adds a USECUSTOM file containing the USE vars the
> | user has chosen interactively then you could have an option at the
> | beginning of the interactive command asking:
> |
> | 	"Use previous USE flags for this package? (X gtk etc..) [Y/n]"
> |
> | 	If the user says Y, then you would extract the USE flags from USECUSTOM
> | and use those.
...
> | 	This solves the scalibility problem and gives the user best of both
> | worlds. What do you think?
> 
> 
> Yes, I think that it's a really good functionnality to add! I will tried to 
> find a way to do this... (but some help will be welcome, I just discover 
> Python!)
> 
> Thanks for your interest !

If I knew Python and had some time I would help. Although I will have
both soon hopefully. I think great things can be achieved with extending
Portage a little bit. So I think you did a great job with this.

Also one other idea I had in mind which I would like to work on one day
is the use of a database to keep all the /var portage information for
different machines in a network and somehow extend Portage to interface
with this database and use one central emerge command (probably with a
wrapper script) to administer all these machines. For now it's all
theory of course :)

BTW just added a reply-to header.

Regards.

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Vano D <gentoo-dev@europeansoftware.com>


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