From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt6ys-00083h-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:54:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EGrrju024354; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:53:53 GMT Received: from www.opersys.com (opersys.com [64.40.108.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EGqBmw015311 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:52:12 GMT Received: from [10.10.10.6] (dsl-135-6.aei.ca [66.36.135.6]) by www.opersys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03420 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:30:44 -0700 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command From: Kristian Benoit To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42D68C5B.1000005@gentoo.org> References: <1121294641.16275.40.camel@localhost> <1121299361.19172.3.camel@localhost> <1121317999.5993.27.camel@localhost> <1121342280.10953.20.camel@localhost> <1121351363.5971.45.camel@localhost> <42D68C5B.1000005@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:51:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1121359894.5971.98.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 27a775d4-4a4a-4c24-9ffd-dc88a1f43403 X-Archives-Hash: 9b4b6bdfd5cc3af77dd2e7c25fde3a2a On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:01 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > Not sure of the mechanics on how > this is done for the portage emerge process, but even stopping the > emerge process for those packages that *must* have a preconfig done > would help (are there any though? I can think of one maybe, but not > really anything to demand new functionality in portage yet). This problem is mostly present in the embedded world. As the packages have to be fine tuned (as a kernel is) at compiled time for the system on which it is beiing build. For example, uClibc and busybox uses a kernel like config. As described on busybox's home page: "BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system." With so many applications/options provided by a single package, that aim to go in small memory/storage system, one must understand that users must fine tune it. Kristian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list