Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild requiring user input

[Sami Dalouche]

Maybe implementing something like debian's debconf would be a good idea ?
Someone told me once on the IRC gentoo's goal is NOT to become as
heavy/complex
as debian, but changing debconf to make it compatible with gentoo would be a
good idea,
I think..

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott J Garner" <mrfab@×××.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] ebuild requiring user input


> This may have been addressed at some point, but I
> couldn't find a specific answer...
>
> What is the prefered way to handle an ebuild for
> software that requires some kind of user input to
> configure and compile?
>
> The package I am dealing with specifically is
> lirc.  The recommended method for configuring it
> is to run a dialog based config util which
> generates the proper ./configure options.  This
> could be skipped, but some of the options are very
> hardware specific.
>
> I'm guessing that the prefered way is to go for
> no user interaction during the merge--which is
> possible, but runs the risk of eliminating support
> for some hardware.
>
>
> Any hints?  I was thinking of defaulting to the
> generic version but allowing for the interactive
> configure via a shell variable...something like:
>
> MANUAL_CONFIG=1 emerge lirc
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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