From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29597 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Nov 2003 16:23:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7882 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 16:23:28 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <877k1qoil5.fsf@jay.local.invalid> References: <200311220241.34983.vapier@gentoo.org> <1069610664.21247.15.camel@localhost> <200311231830.56855.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <877k1qoil5.fsf@jay.local.invalid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ez4xQT9Wg8o7ful/3ECz" Message-Id: <1069690525.8104.48.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:15:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: 462149b1-e342-469b-8763-14e32b6c293e X-Archives-Hash: adebb1f8feeaae07d8293fadfc5682e3 --=-ez4xQT9Wg8o7ful/3ECz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 16:55, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > Luke-Jr writes: >=20 > > On Sunday 23 November 2003 06:04 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> As for the --interactive, I was speaking more along the lines of ebuil= ds > >> such as unreal-tournament-goty and ut2003, which are more than one CD > >> and absolutely REQUIRE user interaction. > > Multiple CDs do not imply user interaction. What about the users who > > have more than one CD drive or don't mind copying certain files to > > their distfiles? >=20 > While it is possible to copy the contents of, for example, the three > UT2003 CDs to a single directory, and specify this as the CD-ROM path > to the ebuild, the lack of package-specific portage configuration files > makes this process effectively interactive (since a single environment > variable is used to specify the CD-ROM path for all game-related > ebuilds). >=20 > Regardless, in this case the user could specify --interactive, knowing > that in fact he has configured everything such that it will not > actually prompt him for anything. >=20 > An ebuild marked interactive would in many ways be similar to an ebuild > currently marked nofetch. It alerts the user that he should not > blindly attempt to emerge the package and then leave portage > unattended. You pretty much hit what I was thinking right on the head. Thank you for being able to put it into words much better than myself. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a penguin? --=-ez4xQT9Wg8o7ful/3ECz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/wi6dkT4lNIS36YERAuvPAJ45zQ3L+WqqnEpIX2hJ9igQStFpGgCfYhjl 0DhzmFnrGFEbEwqso04ZGfg= =UE5G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ez4xQT9Wg8o7ful/3ECz--