From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from tsunx.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk (tsunx.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk [139.184.50.12]) by cvs.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D25652E45 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:10:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk [139.184.50.13] by tsunx.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 14LozC-0001FM-00; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:10:58 +0000 Received: from thomasfl by tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 14LozB-0000ky-00; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:10:57 +0000 From: Thomas Flavel To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom Message-ID: <20010125161057.A26673@tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk> References: <20010124234502.4D5CF51353@cvs.gentoo.org> <20010125015319.G29166@tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk> <3A700B98.A77BE85F@gottinger.de> <20010125125423.B24460@tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk> <3A702404.789AA202@gottinger.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3A702404.789AA202@gottinger.de>; from 320095285153-0001@t-online.de on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Jan 25 09:11:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:10:57 +0000 X-Archives-Salt: 690a1e9d-0d08-42be-a206-33357adcfd73 X-Archives-Hash: a002dd72c06b934f9e31c60db51c9f36 On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: > > > > > > > From what I can see it has a binary cd version, with the option > > > > to compile from source (the same thing I was talking about, if I understand them > > > > correctly). It describes it's package management as closer to FreeBSD than debian. > > > > It looks to be quite similar to gentoo to me, although not quite as advanced. > > > > > > I took a look at the site and think that we need something similar to cfengine > > > sometimes. > > > > That looks like a great idea; I was wondering about something similar for configuring > > applications; i.e. some way to save a "theme" for the applications I use (e.g. colours > > for lynx matching the colours for man pages etc if you see what I mean) > > You mean the user-specific dor-config-files? > Hmmm... I'm just thinking aloud here; I'm not even sure if it's a useful idea, nor am I sure that I can explain it satisfactorialy :/ Ok, from the users perspective, it would look like this: A default configuration skeleton would be installed (a default ~/.bashrc etc), as it is currently. The user would then be able to apply, um, "themes" to their configuration - for example I like the highlight colour to be red, so I would find myself going through ~/.pinerc, ~/.lynxrc etc making them all look the same... the same applies to things like prompts, shells, editor of choice, my favorite mail program, /etc/hosts etc etc. How could this theming work? I thought perhaps a central data file, containing (bear with my example please ;) things like $FAVORITE_COLOUR etc - a script could then be run to update the appropiate rc files. I'm picturing the data for the skeleton rc files being part of the ebuild package; I guess it would have to be extracted to some database reminicient of termcap... I don't think this is particularly urgent; as I said, I'm just thinking aloud. It's just an idea to let you reconfigure everything to the way you like it... I'm not even sure I have exaplined it correctly... basically cfengine but extended to allow for changing variables in rc files too - Tom