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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge
From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible.
>=20
> Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran
> into some interactivity.  I was under the impression that emerge was
> supposed to be completely autonomous, and any user interaction should
> take place in ebuild ... config.
>=20
> Apparantly one of us is {in,}correct, but I cannot find any
> documentation although I'm fairly sure I have read it..

Ebuilds *should* be non-interactive.  There are a few exceptions to
this, such as ones triggered by USE flags (ala webapp-config.eclass) and
ones triggered by necessity (ala games from CD).

--=20
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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