From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:45:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090921004542.5e933a2d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909210057.18518.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:57:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > What is an interactive ebuild? I've not seen one.
>
> An ebuild that waits for you to input data before it continues. I've
> not seen one for a long time, but they were usually used for
> proprietary packages that require you to interactively accept a license.
They are also used in some games ebuilds, where the user has to insert a
CD, but the one affecting me is a licence acceptance thing, virtualbox.
--
Neil Bothwick
Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-20 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 9:16 [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges Neil Bothwick
2009-09-18 9:35 ` Arttu V.
2009-09-18 9:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-18 9:59 ` Arttu V.
2009-09-20 23:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-30 21:41 ` Arttu V.
2009-09-18 21:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-18 11:57 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-09-20 22:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-20 23:45 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
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