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* Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering
  @ 2007-07-07 22:58 99% ` Petteri Räty
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From: Petteri Räty @ 2007-07-07 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw
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Mike Frysinger kirjoitti:
> often times when i get a bug report about certain packages, there's 
> information about that package that i usually ask for ... i wonder if this 
> can be automated
> 
> perhaps extend the syntax of profiles/info_pkgs:
> <atom> [command to pass to system()]
> sys-libs/glibc /lib/libc.so.6
> 
> then when people run `emerge --verbose --info`, for every atom matched as 
> installed, it'd automatically run the listed command and display the output
> 
> useful ?  security issue waiting to explode ?  crazy wacky monkey ?
> -mike

Or a new bug wizard that gives you a list of packages and and asks extra
info based on that.

Regards,
Petteri


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