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Steve Long wrote:
> Hi,
>  A link on bugzilla somehow led me (isn't the web wonderful ;) to this:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40596
>  which appears (to a user) like a really good idea. There is a version =
still
> at: http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass=20
>=20
>  A search at: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
> found only that thread, nor could I find anything on bugzilla. I was ju=
st
> wondering what became of the idea?
>  I appreciate that stable ebuilds aren't supposed to be interactive, bu=
t
> this would be nice, eg for games, imo.

Could you list the packages which could use this? Because if only 3 pkgs
need it, it might not be worth the hassle to add it.

As you pointed it out, ebuilds should not be interactive. Imho, adding
an eclass to encourage it is counter-productive.

My 0.02=E2=82=AC :) Cheers

R=C3=A9mi
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