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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible. |
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> Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran |
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> into some interactivity. I was under the impression that emerge was |
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> supposed to be completely autonomous, and any user interaction should |
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> take place in ebuild ... config. |
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> Apparantly one of us is {in,}correct, but I cannot find any |
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> documentation although I'm fairly sure I have read it.. |
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Ebuilds *should* be non-interactive. There are a few exceptions to |
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this, such as ones triggered by USE flags (ala webapp-config.eclass) and |
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ones triggered by necessity (ala games from CD). |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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