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On autocomplete: do I have to change a setting somewhere for autocompletion? |
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I've never knew about this! |
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The SCM integration sounds interesting. Combining my portage ideas with the |
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ebuild generator/portage GUI frontend is also another possibility (though |
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I've seen other mailings about those). |
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>wrote: |
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> On 15:22 Wed 30 Mar , Colleen Josephson wrote: |
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> > I'm interested in expanding the Portage "tags" idea listed on the wiki. |
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> > To make it SOC-worthy, it obviously needs to be expanded. |
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> > I have thought of a few possibilities: |
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> > -Integrate eix into Portage as a replacement to search |
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> This sounds interesting, particularly if you could get portage to use an |
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> eix-style cache to speed up dependency calculations too. |
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> > -Add a Debian-apt style autocomplete |
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> I think we have some bash-completion that does this already. |
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> emerge www<tab><tab> gives: |
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> : $;emerge www- |
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> www-apache/ www-client/ www-plugins/ |
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> www-apps/ www-misc/ www-servers/ |
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> completing to www-client/ gives: |
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> : $;emerge www-client/ |
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> amaya firefox-bin pybugz |
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> arora galeon rekonq |
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> chromium htmlview seamonkey |
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> chromium-bin httrack seamonkey-bin |
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> ck4up icecat surf |
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> conkeror jd surfraw |
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> dillo jumanji uget |
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> downman links uzbl |
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> elinks luakit w3m |
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> epiphany lynx w3mir |
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> epiphany-extensions midori w3mmee |
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> fetch netrik |
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> firefox opera |
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> > -Add a flag to force the removal of config files when removing a package, |
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> if |
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> > desired |
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> I think this will be really really small, like the other bit about |
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> listing installed commands/daemons. Both could probably be done in a |
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> morning. |
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> You could consider coupling this with other ideas, such as the "SCM |
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> snapshot management infrastructure" that already has a suggested mentor, |
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> which would also help with your other question about finding a mentor. |
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> Another nice benefit of that idea is that nobody else has yet expressed |
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> interest in applying for it. |
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> -- |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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> Donnie Berkholz |
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> Admin, Summer of Code |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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> Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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Colleen Josephson |
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Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Class of 2013 |
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