Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Tom Philbrick <tom@wickidpisa.com>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:50:31AM -0300, Felipe Ghellar wrote:
> These files could be stored in the /var/db/pkg/<categoy>/<package>/ 
> directory, which already exists for installed packages, and maybe inside 
> another subdirectory, e.g. 'menus'.

The program uses /usr/lib/menu to store menufiles, I don't really see
any reason to change that.

> 2. Create a new feature in portage, e.g. 'menus', that can be enabled 
> via make.conf:
> FEATURES="... menus ..."
> In the case that this feature is enabled, the menus are automatically 
> created when the package is installed. Otherwise, the menu files are 
> just left alone in /var/db/pkg/<categoy>/<package>/menus/.
> 
> 3. Include a tool in gentoolkit to manually create the menus from the 
> menu files if someone decides to start using them after having some 
> packages installed. Another tool to remove the menus could also be of use.

All this is a nice idea, but isn't it overkill? On one of my debian
boxes that has over 1000 packages installed the /usr/lib/menu takes up
1.5 megs of space. Gentoo is not exactly small disk friendly, and unless
there is something else I'm missing, wouldn't it be easier to give up
1.5 megs and just install the menufiles whether you use them or not?