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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@xwredwing.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:18:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030816041821.GA9509@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030815202922.466add00.xwred1@xwredwing.net>

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:29:22PM -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
> 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*.

Sure you can - that's what local USE flags are for.

/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-16  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-15 13:19 [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo? thomas weidner
2003-08-16  3:29 ` Matt Thrailkill
2003-08-16  4:18   ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2003-08-16  6:33     ` Philippe Lafoucrière
2003-08-16  6:46       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-16  6:44         ` donnie berkholz
2003-08-16  7:11           ` Philippe Lafoucrière
2003-08-16 16:23             ` [gentoo-dev] " thomas weidner
2003-08-16  9:26       ` [gentoo-dev] " Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-16 17:04         ` Fred Van Andel

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