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Hello again, |
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Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an |
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ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user |
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interaction sometime during the pkg_setup and/or src_unpack phases |
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(similar to GLEP 52 [1]). This will be another use for the new |
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PROPERTIES metadata variable that's been proposed for the |
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implementation of live-sources [2] and virtual [3] PROPERTIES values. |
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This is useful in cases when it might not be possible for the user |
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to perform interaction with ebuilds, so they might decide to mask |
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any ebuilds that exhibit this property. It can also be used to know |
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in advance whether or not it's safe to run the pkg_setup and |
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src_unpack ebuild phases in the background. This provides a solution |
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for bug #233296 [4] by allowing exclusive access to stdin and stdout |
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to be guaranteed during pkg_setup and src_unpack phases. We might |
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also consider adding finer grained values of PROPERTIES such as |
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interactive-setup, interactive-unpack, and interactive-preinst. |
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Your comments will be appreciated. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0052.html |
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[2] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_187585c5d49b69034183719ff473710d.xml |
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[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/57610 |
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[4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233296 |
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