Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge with interacitve use

[Todd Berman <tberman@gentoo.org>]

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Thanks

--Todd

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 19:31, 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.
> |
> | 	Also you could have a commandline option such as --usecustom or
> | something like that, so if the user calls emerge-interactive with that
> | flag it skips all questions and uses the previously kept USE flags.
> |
> | 	Of course this would only work if you only used emerge-interactive
> | since emerge doesnt create any USECUSTOM files :) But I don't think this
> | is a big problem. In any case if emerge-interactive doesn't find any
> | CUSTOMFILE then it asks the users for USE flags just like now.
> |
> | 	This solves the scalibility problem and gives the user best of both
> | worlds. What do you think?
> |
> | 	Regards.
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, I've apply theses changes (I join the emerge-interactive file) :
> 
> -> there is a /var/db/pkg/CATEG/PKG/USECUSTOM :
> 	ask to use this file y or n :
> 		y : we load the values of the file
> 		n : we ask for the new values, when, (re-)create 
> /var/db/pkg/CATEG/PKG/USECUSTOM
>  -> no file   we do exactly like if the user answer n to the previous question
> 
> 
> 
> Please test this script (I made some merge and it was working)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Panard

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