Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] Selection for KDE base-packages

[Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:04:35PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
: Den 24 Aug 2001 11:04:59 +0200 skrev Sebastian Werner:
: > The root makefile contains a variable TOPSUBDIRS which select the
: > subdirs to build and install.
: > We could patch this file to delete some entries in this variable.
: >
: > I mean that i don't want to use three editors for example. I need
: > only one editor in KDE: kate
: > So i wouldn't install kedit for example
:
: What about the people that _do_ want kedit and not kate?
: I would like some pre-build configuration stuff. With a question to the
: user, do you want to configure this package before building it? It would
: make the Portage tree more flexible than just using USE-variables. I'm
: not sure if this fits into the Portage system though.
:
: But in this case it would be something like:
:
: Do you want to configure KDE-base [y/N]: Y
: Which editor would you like: [Kate/kedit/all]: <enter>
: ...
: Installing KDE-base with the following programs:
: Editor: Kate
: ...
: Is this correct [Y/n]: <enter>
: Start installing..
:
: We could have some kind of timeout on the first question so that if you
: do an automatic build it wouldn't stop at the question if you are not at
: the computer.
:
: What do you think, drobbins?

I think that this goes against the current vision of the portage system.
Currently, a portage should build w/out *any* user interaction.  There
are still some bugs to get worked out, but I think that's still where
we're heading.  Keep in mind, I'm not speaking for Dan, just relating
things as I understand them.

That being said, I want to once again point out that the portage system
does allow one to have a /usr/portage/local directory.  Have you thought
about configuring the ebuild to meet your specific needs and sticking it
in there?

        --Jerry

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