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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@×××××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 04:18:24
Message-Id: 20030816041821.GA9509@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo? by Matt Thrailkill
1 On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:29:22PM -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
2 > Something like this would be handy. Even in FreeBSD, they have sort of
3 > an interactive questionaire thing when you build something from Ports.
4 > For example, when you try to build Samba in Ports, it brings up a text
5 > dialog with a bunch of checkboxes for all the Samba options like ACLs
6 > and LDAP support, and you check off the ones you want; obviously then it
7 > adds those to the ./configure line it uses in the Makefile.
8 >
9 > I know Gentoo relies on USE flags and they are all magical and stuff,
10 > but you can't have a USE flag for *everything*.
11
12 Sure you can - that's what local USE flags are for.
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14 /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
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Re: [gentoo-dev] something like debconf for gentoo? "Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@×××××××.fr>