Re: [gentoo-soc] Looking for a mentor for a Portage SOC Project

[Colleen Josephson <cjoseph@mit.edu>]

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On autocomplete: do I have to change a setting somewhere for autocompletion?
I've never knew about this!

The SCM integration sounds interesting. Combining my portage ideas with the
ebuild generator/portage GUI frontend is also another possibility (though
I've seen other mailings about those).

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>wrote:

> On 15:22 Wed 30 Mar     , Colleen Josephson wrote:
> > I'm interested in expanding the Portage "tags" idea listed on the wiki.
> > To make it SOC-worthy, it obviously needs to be expanded.
> >
> > I have thought of a few possibilities:
> > -Integrate eix into Portage as a replacement to search
>
> This sounds interesting, particularly if you could get portage to use an
> eix-style cache to speed up dependency calculations too.
>
> > -Add a Debian-apt style autocomplete
>
> I think we have some bash-completion that does this already.
>
> emerge www<tab><tab> gives:
>
> : $;emerge www-
> www-apache/   www-client/   www-plugins/
> www-apps/     www-misc/     www-servers/
>
> completing to www-client/ gives:
>
> : $;emerge www-client/
> amaya                firefox-bin          pybugz
> arora                galeon               rekonq
> chromium             htmlview             seamonkey
> chromium-bin         httrack              seamonkey-bin
> ck4up                icecat               surf
> conkeror             jd                   surfraw
> dillo                jumanji              uget
> downman              links                uzbl
> elinks               luakit               w3m
> epiphany             lynx                 w3mir
> epiphany-extensions  midori               w3mmee
> fetch                netrik
> firefox              opera
>
> > -Add a flag to force the removal of config files when removing a package,
> if
> > desired
>
> I think this will be really really small, like the other bit about
> listing installed commands/daemons. Both could probably be done in a
> morning.
>
> You could consider coupling this with other ideas, such as the "SCM
> snapshot management infrastructure" that already has a suggested mentor,
> which would also help with your other question about finding a mentor.
> Another nice benefit of that idea is that nobody else has yet expressed
> interest in applying for it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> Donnie Berkholz
> Admin, Summer of Code
> Gentoo Linux
> Blog: http://dberkholz.com
>



-- 
Colleen Josephson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Class of 2013

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