Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Corvus Corax <corvusvcorax@gemia.de>]

Am Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:08:06 -0400
schrieb Tom Philbrick <tom@wickidpisa.com>:

> Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April someone
> asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was already being
> worked on, while others said the opposite. Is anyone currently working
> on an automatic menu system for gentoo, and if so, what is its status?
> 
--- snap


Dont want to bother anyone, but the idea of having to rebuild every ebuild existing for menu data seems not very effective.
wouldnt it be better to provide this extra-information in /usr/portage/<class>/<program>/files/menu.<version>.inf for example?
so the menu information can sometimes be added to any existing ebuild (and every new) and is read out by any menu application gentoo may provide. maybe write a tool, which regularly updates the used menu-files on installed ebuilds in /var/db/pkg, or make menu systems do this on their own.

of course there are many other working methods of doing this, this just an idea. i unfortunately even dont have time to do this myself, but this is a dev-mlist isnt it? <g>

what about a tool, which creates menu information for every known menu-system , KDE, Gnome, debian, ..., ... out of this data (/usr/portage/<class>/<program>/files/menu.<version>.inf) at a regular timebase?
this should be added to portage itself to be run every time one runs "emerge <item> [unmerge]" :-)

just an idea
greetings

Corvus Corax