Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] Selection for KDE base-packages

[Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>]

Den 24 Aug 2001 11:04:59 +0200 skrev Sebastian Werner:
> The root makefile contains a variable TOPSUBDIRS which select the
> subdirs to build and install.
> We could patch this file to delete some entries in this variable.
> 
> I mean that i don't want to use three editors for example. I need
> only one editor in KDE: kate
> So i wouldn't install kedit for example

What about the people that _do_ want kedit and not kate?
I would like some pre-build configuration stuff. With a question to the
user, do you want to configure this package before building it? It would
make the Portage tree more flexible than just using USE-variables. I'm
not sure if this fits into the Portage system though.

But in this case it would be something like:

Do you want to configure KDE-base [y/N]: Y
Which editor would you like: [Kate/kedit/all]: <enter>
...
Installing KDE-base with the following programs:
Editor: Kate
...
Is this correct [Y/n]: <enter>
Start installing..

We could have some kind of timeout on the first question so that if you
do an automatic build it wouldn't stop at the question if you are not at
the computer.

What do you think, drobbins?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
Stockholm, Sweden