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=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu (wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.147]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB54ABD4F for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:47:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tom by wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Xx0U-0001ty-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:47:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:47:14 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? Message-ID: <20020726044714.GA7271@wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20020725165243.58ec047d.jnelson@jamponi.net> <3D40C707.3080105@yahoo.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D40C707.3080105@yahoo.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Tom Philbrick Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: d671ff28-595b-42fe-a565-0e989fd2553c X-Archives-Hash: b5c5d60d11dd32e31f4584c62790adbf On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:50:31AM -0300, Felipe Ghellar wrote: > These files could be stored in the /var/db/pkg/// > 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///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?