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=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from VikingPC.home (dsl-213-023-056-071.arcor-ip.net [213.23.56.71]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B079ABD4F for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:45:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by VikingPC.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCDE21B4746; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:45:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:45:05 +0200 From: Corvus Corax To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? Message-Id: <20020726144505.195e1dd4.corvusvcorax@gemia.de> In-Reply-To: <20020724150806.GA5414@wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu> References: <20020724150806.GA5414@wickidpisa.csh.rit.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: fe4b2fae-6a85-4716-b52a-b6b569d4785b X-Archives-Hash: dd2e6784782f96a6b4fdd3670e07320d Am Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:08:06 -0400 schrieb Tom Philbrick : > 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///files/menu..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? what about a tool, which creates menu information for every known menu-system , KDE, Gnome, debian, ..., ... out of this data (/usr/portage///files/menu..inf) at a regular timebase? this should be added to portage itself to be run every time one runs "emerge [unmerge]" :-) just an idea greetings Corvus Corax