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I'd like to help! I'm offering my support, but I need some guidance to |
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find 'the code'. Anyone? |
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Thanks |
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JR Boyens |
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jboyens@×××××××.edu |
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On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 10:22, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 18:01, JR Boyens wrote: |
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> > IIRC FreeBSD uses environment variables. So say you want XMMS compiled |
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> > with GNOME support you set the environ USE_GNOME to 1 and it will. It |
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> > lets you know at the beginning of the build. |
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> > |
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> > Personally I think that the USE variables are a little too generalized, |
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> > I'd like to see optional finer grained control. Another example, just |
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> > because a console MP3 player has LDAP support, doesn't mean I want it, |
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> > but I do for mail programs. |
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> > |
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> > I envision some sort of ncurses/X based config where you smack a few |
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> > checkboxes and "BAM!" your packages are configured to your specs. To |
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> > shield the unwilling, maybe a command-line option to enable the extra |
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> > config options? |
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> > |
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> > I don't know, but I'd really like to see something like Debconf with |
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> > Gentoo. I'd be willing to help someone out, but I don't have the gusto |
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> > to do it myself. :) |
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> As I already mantioned, the fine-grained package-specific |
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> configuration _will_ be available in the future. |
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> It means we are working on it ;). It's just that for now the focus |
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> is on bug fixes for the Gentoo 1.0 release. |
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> /Vitaly. |
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