From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10776 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Aug 2003 16:23:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1090 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2003 16:23:07 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: thomas weidner Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20030816041821.GA9509@cerberus.oppresses.us> <1061015586.16765.16.camel@biproc> <200308160246.13621.vapier@gentoo.org> <1061016260.4169.33.camel@lfa220234.richmond.edu> <1061017880.16765.19.camel@biproc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: something like debconf for gentoo? X-Archives-Salt: 26305b84-fc11-421e-ae3c-a1376aef6817 X-Archives-Hash: 71b75f519d821c408729821aa2582adc 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) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list