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> > >1) I can do this? Since you're the developers I think I |
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> > >should ask first :-) |
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> > to the distro. Also, they may already be working on |
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> > something that you could help with, so it is still good to |
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> Yes, that would be the most important issue :). |
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> Well, I cannot easily answer if anybody is doing what you intend to, |
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> because I did not completely understand what kind of configurator you are |
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> talking about: |
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I was a bit vague on my message, I know... :-) Anyway, I'll explain better to |
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see if anyone is doing the same thing so I can help or if anyone wants to |
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help me :-) |
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> 1. Do you want to create a gui configurator for make.conf (say to set USE |
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> flags, and other values)? |
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I was thinking in something more complete, but it involves the make.conf |
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configuration... If I understood right the make.globals should not be changed |
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from the original, right? Just setting the make.conf will do... |
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The other thing I was thinking is an ebuild info viewer (If there's already |
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something to configure make.conf I'll do this separated). There's things I |
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missed when I first tried Portage like how I know if will make any diference |
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if I set 'x' value in USE for 'y' program? I know each ebuild file has a test |
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to see if the value is setted or not, so the viewer program will read the |
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ebuild and show which USE values are used, which is currently setted on |
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system, the URL of the file, homepage, description, etc... |
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> Then the answer is - partially yes. Please take a look at bugs #2748 & |
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> #2846. |
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They look nice, but I'm not thinking in GUI with X/GTK but with ncurses, this |
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way, people without X can still configure Portage (on a server for |
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example...). Of course, if everything goes as I expect I may port it to X... |
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(PS: I really can't program anything in Python :-) ) |
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>Please also take a look at the tools available in gentoolkit. You |
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> will probably want as well to do a search on bugs.gentoo.org for certain |
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> keywords that would make sence to you. |
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I looked at gentoolkit and I saw useflag, it has some features I'd like to |
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have on the make.conf configurator like descriptions of the USE flags... :-) |
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I'll make a more deep search on bugs.gentoo.org to see if I can find |
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anything... |
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> Do you want to create a gui wrapper for emerge? |
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No (not for now at least...) |
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> Generally, if you could formulate the concept of the tool you are looking |
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> into, that would help to identify related projects. Then you would probably |
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> want to post this description/proposal here *and* create a new bug |
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> describing what you intend to do and proposing your help. |
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Let's see :-) I want to make a tool that can configure all the aspects of |
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make.conf (like CHOST, CFLAGS, USE, etc) and give the user package |
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information (what packages are installed, what USE flags are used in the |
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ebuild and things like that, I'm accepting features requests to implement as |
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soon as I get this things working) |
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I'll fill a bug report as soon as I get something (barely) working... |
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> Also, for a real-time chat with core devs you can always get us on channel |
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> #gentoo at irc.openprojects.net. |
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I went there a few times (almost every evening :-) ) |
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If anyone have more comments I'll be very glad to discuss it :-) |
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Silvio Fonseca |
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LinuxLab - Mackenzie University - Brazil |