Re: [gentoo-dev] gpm & mozilla bugs -- Suggestion for Portage extensions

[Mikael Hallendal]

tor 2001-09-20 klockan 15.32 skrev Karl Trygve Kalleberg:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:52:34AM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > tor 2001-09-20 klockan 01.46 skrev Morgan Christiansson:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > *mozilla-0.9.3 segfaults when started as  non-root, mozilla-bin-0.9.4
> > > doesn't work either.
> >
> > Hmm, you have to first start mozilla as root (once after install), then
> > it should be fine to run it as any user.
>
> The ebuild should inform the user of this caveat.

Yes, but I'm not sure how to do so (with current system). I guess a
message in post-install is better than nothing?

> In fact, we should have some kind of global notices for the portage
> system. When an ebuild has required or suggested post-install steps, these
> should be added to the notices list

Hmm .. this system sounds awkward to me. Daniel had some idea about some
post-inst-message system, that queued up all post-inst-messages and
showed the user in the end, when emerge is finished with all packages.

This might be a good way and sounds (too me) better then a
notices-system.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

> In other distros, (Debian), required manual intervention in the
> post-install step is covered by the apt's menu-system. We might not want
> to do this, leaving the details and timing to the user.

I had some ideas about this but that's not part of this discussion. This
is more to configure the package manually. This step can't be solved
with some manual menu system-stuff.

Other distro's provides binary packages where this step has been done
and is included in the binary package. 

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

PS. This is in my todo DS.

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