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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > > > From what I can see it has a binary cd version, with the option |
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> > > > to compile from source (the same thing I was talking about, if I understand them |
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> > > > correctly). It describes it's package management as closer to FreeBSD than debian. |
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> > > > It looks to be quite similar to gentoo to me, although not quite as advanced. |
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> > > I took a look at the site and think that we need something similar to cfengine |
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> > > sometimes. |
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> > That looks like a great idea; I was wondering about something similar for configuring |
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> > applications; i.e. some way to save a "theme" for the applications I use (e.g. colours |
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> > for lynx matching the colours for man pages etc if you see what I mean) |
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> You mean the user-specific dor-config-files? |
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Hmmm... I'm just thinking aloud here; I'm not even sure if it's a useful idea, nor am I sure |
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that I can explain it satisfactorialy :/ |
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Ok, from the users perspective, it would look like this: A default configuration skeleton would |
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be installed (a default ~/.bashrc etc), as it is currently. The user would then be able to |
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apply, um, "themes" to their configuration - for example I like the highlight colour to be red, |
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so I would find myself going through ~/.pinerc, ~/.lynxrc etc making them all look the same... |
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the same applies to things like prompts, shells, editor of choice, my favorite mail program, |
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/etc/hosts etc etc. |
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How could this theming work? I thought perhaps a central data file, containing (bear with my |
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example please ;) things like $FAVORITE_COLOUR etc - a script could then be run to update the |
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appropiate rc files. |
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I'm picturing the data for the skeleton rc files being part of the ebuild package; I guess it |
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would have to be extracted to some database reminicient of termcap... |
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I don't think this is particularly urgent; as I said, I'm just thinking aloud. It's just an idea |
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to let you reconfigure everything to the way you like it... I'm not even sure I have exaplined |
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it correctly... basically cfengine but extended to allow for changing variables in rc files too |
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- Tom |