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About eclectic |
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During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been |
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working on "eclectic" [1], a modular administration and configuration |
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framework for Gentoo. Eclectic is completely written in bash and unifies |
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different tasks in one tool with a consistent user interfaces. Up to |
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now, eclectic can handle mulitple tasks using the following modules: |
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* bashcomp: |
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Configure and list bash completetions, thus obsoletes |
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app-shells/bash-completion-config. |
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* blas,lapack: |
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Switch between implementations of virtual/{blas,lapack}. |
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This obsoletes sci-libs/{blas,lapack}-config (which are bogus). |
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* profile: |
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List and switch Gentoo portage profiles. Check if selected |
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profile is valid in regard to used "ARCH". |
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* mailer: |
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Manage the mailwrapper profiles in /etc/mail. |
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* kernel: |
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Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink. |
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Work on further modules is in progress like: |
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* vi: |
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Manage the upcoming vi symlink for parallel installs of vi clones. |
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(vi, nvi, vim, gvim) |
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* icu and ilasm: |
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Manage the different free implementation of .NET. |
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Eclectic has a library concept for shared function. It features common |
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code for configuration, output and multilib handling. |
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There is a both a developer guide and a user guide as RST shipped with |
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the source. |
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Currently, eclectic's source[2] is hosted at berlios.de due to our decission |
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to use Subversion as SCM. As soon as GLEP 36[3] has been implemented, we |
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would like to move to a Gentoo repository. |
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Questions |
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* What do we need to accomplish to get the status of an "Official |
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Gentoo Project" ? Is a manager voting necessary ? |
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* What do the maintainers of Gentoo's various -config and -update |
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scripts think about converting their scripts into eclectic modules ? |
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* What is the best place for eclectic in the portage tree? app-admin as |
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it is an administrative tool? Or rather app-portage as it should be |
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used together with Gentoo only? |
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Danny |
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[1] http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic |
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[2] http://download.berlios.de/eclectic/eclectic-0.9.1.tar.bz2 |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0036.html |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project |
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