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Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I had an idea I dimsmissed which I thought I should post anyway, on the off chance that it |
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> might actually get used ;) |
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> I was thinking about how /proc is sometimes used as a bi-directional interface, for example I |
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> can "echo 1>/proc/whatever" to turn on ping flood protection or something similar. I was |
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> wondering how practical it would be to have a similar thing for portage? |
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> If I could say "echo gimp>/proc/portage/install" or "cat /proc/portage/packages" etc then |
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> this would mean that it would be very easy to write front ends for portage, plus with this |
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> minimal interface it would be very nice to use in scripts... I know it would be a massive |
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> kernel module, and probably too much effort to actually produce/maintain but I thought you |
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> should hear the idea... have a think about it please |
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Hmm, such a module whould make sense if it contains all the pachage management functions and |
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the whole /var/db/pkg stuff in a database typothing. |
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I thought about using SOAP over RPC-XML for an network based package management system. |
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If this thing could be implemented as a module it would be great I think. |
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Bye Achim |
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> - Tom |
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