From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7Z7G-0005Ad-SF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:47:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NDj0ST010277; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:45:00 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NDgfoI031171 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:42:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7BA2E821A for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:41:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:41:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1121294641.16275.40.camel@localhost> <1121342280.10953.20.camel@localhost> <200507142137.31455.jstubbs@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200507142137.31455.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1900225.SKtE7DZujQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508231541.45008.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5f94d4b7-94d4-4c57-a59e-7f629092dc9c X-Archives-Hash: 7422e6fc3e89635f8e05d7c6e484a754 --nextPart1900225.SKtE7DZujQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:37, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 20:58, Ned Ludd wrote: > > echo "being that no portage dev in his/her right mind would > > ever" echo "allow interactive code in an ebuild we use bashrc tricks" > > Actually, I promote interactive code in pkg_config(). There's no > standard as to what it will do, so there's no real solution other than > telling the user and then waiting for confirmation. > > As for the other phases, they should of course be 100% non-interactive. > However, a pkg_presetup() or some such couldn't go astray - as long as > it was purely optional. It would be much better to wait until portage > supports arbitrary per-package env for it to be of any real use though. Wouldn't it better suit our needs to write a configuration program that=20 packages can feed some custom configuration questions, and that then=20 spits out something that can be used by the ebuilds. This would allow=20 offline configuration of ebuilds etc. And something that was saved. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1900225.SKtE7DZujQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDCyeYbKx5DBjWFdsRAolWAKDZjI+7OXtsSK0OGTlc2NaPSs4H3ACgixbZ wNdb/6bp6ycaAn4DDM/2bRA= =9NCZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1900225.SKtE7DZujQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list