From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24156 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Aug 2003 03:36:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10654 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2003 03:36:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:29:22 -0700 From: Matt Thrailkill To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030815202922.466add00.xwred1@xwredwing.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo? X-Archives-Salt: 3106a0c5-740b-4649-a395-fb6f51e8a8e4 X-Archives-Hash: e89defd7460914b25624729d26d82699 Something like this would be handy. Even in FreeBSD, they have sort of an interactive questionaire thing when you build something from Ports. For example, when you try to build Samba in Ports, it brings up a text dialog with a bunch of checkboxes for all the Samba options like ACLs and LDAP support, and you check off the ones you want; obviously then it adds those to the ./configure line it uses in the Makefile. I know Gentoo relies on USE flags and they are all magical and stuff, but you can't have a USE flag for *everything*. On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:19:15 +0200 thomas weidner wrote: > Hi, > > debian has a nice system for packages displaying messages or asking > questions, or even to store package spezific informations. There are > CLI, textmode GUI, and even X11 frontends. I think this would also be > a good idea for gentoo. what do the others think? > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list