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Why?? |
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Because it's a nice convienence. And as you noted, |
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you can turn it off if you don't like it. |
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I get tired of people objecting against features that |
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go against their view when they don't have to use it. |
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Too many people think the Gentoo (or any of the other |
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distros) should be the way they want it and no other |
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way. If they don't want/use a feature, it's a waste |
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to put it in. Never mind what anybody else might like. |
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>From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com> |
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>To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? |
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>Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:46:43 +0100 |
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> |
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>Why?? |
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>Whenever I install Mandrake the first thing I do is disable its menu |
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>system. It's ugly and IMHO unnecessary. KDE has a pretty good menu |
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>system of its own as has gnome. |
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> |
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>On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 16:08, Tom Philbrick wrote: |
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> > Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April someone |
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> > asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was already being |
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> > worked on, while others said the opposite. Is anyone currently working |
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> > on an automatic menu system for gentoo, and if so, what is its status? |
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> > |
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> > I ask because I am in the process of porting the debian menu system |
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> > over to gentoo, but I realized I should stop and see if it is worth the |
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> > effort. I have the program working as far as I can tell, although I |
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> > haven't done much testing yet. It still needs a lot of work, but most |
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> > of that is tailoring it to gentoo rather than debian (rewriting |
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> > documentation, and making my hacks less of a hack). The build isn't |
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> > pretty, I see now why debian is not a source distro, but it works for |
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> > now and I'm working on cleaning it up. |
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> > |
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> > For those of you that have never used debian (or mandrake, as menudrake |
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> > uses the debian menu system under the hood) you can read a good |
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> > overview of it at: |
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> > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/index.html For |
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> > the system to work, it would require that every package that wants to |
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> > use a menu must install a menu-method that describes how to generate a |
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> > menu for that program (these can me borrowed from debian, or written |
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> > from scratch). It also would require that every application that wanted |
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> > to be in a menu include a simple menu file that describes what the menu |
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> > entry should be. Yes that means a lot of packages would need to be |
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> > updated, but the menufiles take about 30 seconds to write, and are |
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> > simple enough for anyone to do. |
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> > |
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> > So what should I do? Post a new package bug now? Wait until it is |
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> > completely done? Wait until a better time? Give up in favor of a more |
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> > mature, or better, solution? |
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> > |
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> > -Tom Philbrick |
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