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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:04:35PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 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 this could be very nice for Portage 2.0 :)

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