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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:36 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are |
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> > no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package. |
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> What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place |
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> for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature |
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> is mysql. There are way more possibilities. |
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I use it fairly regularly. I know that we use it on any game that |
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requires a CD key, and also for VMWare (I bet most people don't know |
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that!) to configure the modules. |
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I hadn't considered using it for actually configuring a package (duh!) |
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but that really is a very cool idea. Imagine if we started doing this |
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for more packages. It would remove one of the primary complaints people |
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have about Gentoo being "too hard" since they don't know "what to do |
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next" after they emerge a package. If we got people used to "ebuild |
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[ebuild] config", then we could remove a good bit of the issue. |
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Just an idea, but one I'll probably be using more often now. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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