[gentoo-dev] Re: something like debconf for gentoo?

[thomas weidner <yasea@gmx.net>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:11:21 +0200, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:

> 
>> The problem is, emerge should be non-interactive, meaning I could walk
>> away for 12 hours and have it be done when I come back, not have some
>> silly gentooconf screen waiting on the second of 250 packages. That's
>> why USE flags are nice. Of course, if one could go through gentooconf
>> all at once before starting, that might work too.
> 
> Like debconf is only called when all packages are fetched, gentooconf
> should be called between fetching files and compiling.
> It's similar to the grouped log in emerge (display all messages in 1
> shot at the end of emerging).

that's a good idea,scan all packages first for gentooconf things,then do
the gentooconf stuff and then compile 250 packages non-interactively for
12h. (there aren't only useflags things to do with gentooconf)


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