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Hi everyone, |
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It seems that it will be beneficial to narrow the definition of the |
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proposed PROPERTIES=interactive [1] value, so the definition is more |
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pure and simple like ones recently suggested for "live" [2] and |
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"virtual" [3] properties. Therefore, the "interactive" property will |
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only serve to indicate that some unspecified form(s) of interaction |
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may occur at some unspecified time(s) during the execution of one or |
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more of the ebuild's standard phase functions that are supposed to |
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be executed in order to build, install, or remove a package. In |
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order to keep the definition as narrow as possible, the method and |
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time of interaction are unspecified. |
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The "interactive" property will be useful in cases when it might not |
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be possible to perform interaction with ebuilds, so the user might |
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decide to mask any ebuilds that exhibit this property. It can also |
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be used to know in advance that it might not be safe to excecute |
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ebuild phases in the background, which might be used to provide a |
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solution for bug #233296 [4] by allowing exclusive access to stdio |
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to be guaranteed when executing the phases of a specific ebuild. |
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We might also consider adding finer grained values of PROPERTIES |
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such as interactive-setup, interactive-unpack, and |
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interactive-preinst. However, the "interactive" property alone will |
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still be quite useful whether or not we decide to create |
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finer-grained properties to represent more specific types of |
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interaction. |
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Do the name and definition of this PROPERTIES=interactive value seem |
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good? Would anybody like to discuss any changes to the name, |
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definition, or both? |
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[1] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_e145fc04e907de72e30d88285afb134c.xml |
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[2] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_64b83155637bcad67478e2d2af276780.xml |
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[3] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_9d449a18a96a25a547fcfd40544085cf.xml |
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[4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233296 |
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- -- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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