On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
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> Hello again,
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> Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an
> ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user
> interaction sometime during the pkg_setup and/or src_unpack phases
> (similar to GLEP 52 [1]). This will be another use for the new
> PROPERTIES metadata variable that's been proposed for the
> implementation of live-sources [2] and virtual [3] PROPERTIES values.
>
> This is useful in cases when it might not be possible for the user
> to perform interaction with ebuilds, so they might decide to mask
> any ebuilds that exhibit this property. It can also be used to know
> in advance whether or not it's safe to run the pkg_setup and
> src_unpack ebuild phases in the background. This provides a solution
> for bug #233296 [4] by allowing exclusive access to stdin and stdout
> to be guaranteed during pkg_setup and src_unpack phases.  We might
> also consider adding finer grained values of PROPERTIES such as
> interactive-setup, interactive-unpack, and interactive-preinst.
>
> Your comments will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Zac

Just to be clear; PROPERTIES is a space separated list of items correct?

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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0052.html
> [2]
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_187585c5d49b69034183719ff473710d.xml
> [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/57610
> [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233296
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