Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Friday 26 July 2002 14:45, Corvus Corax wrote:
>
> Dont want to bother anyone, but the idea of having to rebuild every ebuild
> existing for menu data seems not very effective. wouldnt it be better to
> provide this extra-information in
> /usr/portage/<class>/<program>/files/menu.<version>.inf for example? so the
> menu information can sometimes be added to any existing ebuild (and every
> new) and is read out by any menu application gentoo may provide. maybe
> write a tool, which regularly updates the used menu-files on installed
> ebuilds in /var/db/pkg, or make menu systems do this on their own.
>
I allready saw the problem too, and this might be the answer.
>
> what about a tool, which creates menu information for every known
> menu-system , KDE, Gnome, debian, ..., ... out of this data
> (/usr/portage/<class>/<program>/files/menu.<version>.inf) at a regular
> timebase? this should be added to portage itself to be run every time one
> runs "emerge <item> [unmerge]" :-)

Such a tool is what automatic menus is about. The question is how 
gentoo-specific it will be. I'd like to add to this that I would like the 
possibility to rearange menu items as I see fit, but still have links removed 
when I remove software.

Paul

ps. maybe that feature could be accomplished by using a configuration file 
that describes "relocations"

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