Re: [gentoo-dev] [patch] preconfig to allow user configuration before compilation

[Jason Stubbs]

On Friday 15 July 2005 12:55, Kristian Benoit wrote:
> This patch provide a new feature (preconfig).
>
> With this feature on, emerging an ebuild with an optional src_preconfig
> function will unpack, preconfig, compile, ... on emerge. But with
> preconfig off, it would do as usual and bypass the src_preconfig.
> src_preconfig is for interactive configuration at before src_compile
> like packages where you must "make menuconfig".
>
> A couple things could still be done:
>
> - emerge could unpack every packages that define a src_preconfig,
> preconfig those packages then follow up with compile on those packages
> and normal emerge on other packages.
>
> - As some people dont want interactive configuration or as much hidden
> as possible, I thought of removing preconfig if set in make.conf but
> only keep it if set in environment variable.

Sending a 1.4MB patch to a public mailing list is not very nice - especially 
not in one go. Patches belong on bugs.gentoo.org anyway.

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Jason Stubbs