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maillog: 03/10/2005-08:56:57(-0400): Chris Gianelloni types |
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> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> > Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible. |
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> > Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran |
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> > into some interactivity. I was under the impression that emerge was |
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> > supposed to be completely autonomous, and any user interaction should |
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> > take place in ebuild ... config. |
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> > Apparantly one of us is {in,}correct, but I cannot find any |
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> > documentation although I'm fairly sure I have read it.. |
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> Ebuilds *should* be non-interactive. There are a few exceptions to |
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> this, such as ones triggered by USE flags (ala webapp-config.eclass) and |
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> ones triggered by necessity (ala games from CD). |
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Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds |
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would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was |
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use-flag based RESTRICT... |
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