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Please stop attaching things to emails coming to this list. Either post |
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a url, or ask for people to reply privately to you so you can email it |
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to them. |
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Thanks |
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--Todd |
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On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 19:31, Panard wrote: |
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> Le Mardi 29 Avril 2003 22:12, Vano D a écrit : |
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> | Hi Panard, |
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> | How about adding a little functionality to the script so it keeps which |
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> | USE vars the user chooses in a file like |
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> | /var/db/pkg/app-editors/vim-6.1-r21/USECUSTOM (that would be for vim :)? |
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> | I have checked the USE files but they all contain the complete $USE |
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> | variable when the package was emerged. So maybe if you add the |
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> | functionality so it adds a USECUSTOM file containing the USE vars the |
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> | user has chosen interactively then you could have an option at the |
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> | beginning of the interactive command asking: |
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> | "Use previous USE flags for this package? (X gtk etc..) [Y/n]" |
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> | If the user says Y, then you would extract the USE flags from USECUSTOM |
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> | and use those. |
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> | Also you could have a commandline option such as --usecustom or |
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> | something like that, so if the user calls emerge-interactive with that |
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> | flag it skips all questions and uses the previously kept USE flags. |
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> | Of course this would only work if you only used emerge-interactive |
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> | since emerge doesnt create any USECUSTOM files :) But I don't think this |
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> | is a big problem. In any case if emerge-interactive doesn't find any |
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> | CUSTOMFILE then it asks the users for USE flags just like now. |
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> | This solves the scalibility problem and gives the user best of both |
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> | worlds. What do you think? |
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> | Regards. |
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> Ok, I've apply theses changes (I join the emerge-interactive file) : |
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> -> there is a /var/db/pkg/CATEG/PKG/USECUSTOM : |
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> ask to use this file y or n : |
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> y : we load the values of the file |
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> n : we ask for the new values, when, (re-)create |
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> /var/db/pkg/CATEG/PKG/USECUSTOM |
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> -> no file we do exactly like if the user answer n to the previous question |
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> Please test this script (I made some merge and it was working) |
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> Thanks, |
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> Panard |
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