Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features

[Bart Lauwers <blauwers@gentoo.org>]

Pieter,

 Imagine the expert system is 'screen' or interacts similarly to it, meaning 
it can read all output from portage and it can send a command line back (i.e. 
emulate a real user). This would basically put the system out of portage so 
why make it a requirement? So that during development it can be accounted for 
that some things will want unfiltered output and input. Maybe I'm not making 
myself clear again so let me know if you still don't see what I mean now.

I would in no way expect portage to deliver the expert system but it should 
IMHO provide the frame on which one could be built.

Bart

> > 8. have hooks for an expert system that can deal with compile errors
>
> This request is too abstract. This could become very interesting in
> combination with the freshmeat sync feature that was requested on -dev
> earlier. This is why I like looking at ebuild in a directory as a
> knowledge base (KB):
> there are learning techniques which can be used to , based on 'past'
> knowledge, provide about-data (dependency info, features, ...) for a
> newer version. The problem however is the howtodata (some patches might
> no longer apply, ...) it would be nice to have a reasoning system for
> that too, but I think this falls outside the scope of the current
> effort.


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