[gentoo-dev] ebuild requiring user input

[Scott J Garner]

This may have been addressed at some point, but I
couldn't find a specific answer...

What is the prefered way to handle an ebuild for
software that requires some kind of user input to
configure and compile?

The package I am dealing with specifically is
lirc.  The recommended method for configuring it
is to run a dialog based config util which
generates the proper ./configure options.  This
could be skipped, but some of the options are very
hardware specific.

I'm guessing that the prefered way is to go for
no user interaction during the merge--which is 
possible, but runs the risk of eliminating support
for some hardware.


Any hints?  I was thinking of defaulting to the
generic version but allowing for the interactive
configure via a shell variable...something like:

MANUAL_CONFIG=1 emerge lirc


Thanks in advance.

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