Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:26:02
Message-Id: 1128363764.11080.3.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge by "Jan Kundrát"
1 On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 19:39 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net> wrote:
4 > > | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds
5 > > | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was
6 > > | use-flag based RESTRICT...
7 > >
8 > > No, because then that would encourage even more people to abuse the
9 > > system and write incorrect ebuilds.
10 >
11 > IMHO this could be enforced by some policy ("don't use
12 > RESTRICT=interactive unless you really need it and some_group has given
13 > you the ok")...
14 No, it shouldn't. interactive ebuilds make remote updating very
15 time-consuming (you have to check wether it wants you to interact with i
16 or not yet) and are usually not needed - just ask the user to run ebuild
17 foo config (or whatever does thw job) manually.
18 --
19 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move

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