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On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 23:28 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Friday 30 April 2004 22:53, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > I don't like that idea, portage shouldn't be interactive by default. |
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> Hrm. It would only have to be interactive the first time - when it has |
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> questions that it doesn't have answers to. And it asks all of those |
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> questions up-front - when it has the user's attention. |
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> It's no different in principle to the way that a windows-based installer asks |
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> you all the questions before installing your files. It's a |
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> human-computer-interaction model that most people understand, and are |
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> comfortable with. |
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Debian already does what you are talking about, with gtk and ncurses |
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frontends being optional. Questions have priority, you can set what |
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questions you want to see and which to allow defaults on, eg ask |
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questions with greater than medium importance. It's also possible to |
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re-run the questionnaires per package. This is how they configure XFree |
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drivers + modelines, ask permission to setuid on certain bins, etc. I |
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don't necessarily support this idea, just giving a possible source of |
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inspiration (or even what not to do, as the case may be). |
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> > Use pkg_setup() |
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> ... and output a message that the user probably won't read, because it appears |
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> two hours into an 'emerge -u world' and has long gone from the terminal's |
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> screen buffer by the time the user returns. |
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> I think asking the user *before* the emerge -u world begins is a lot |
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> friendlier myself. |
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> > and tell the user to set the required values via the |
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> > environment or with a tool, let's call it gentoo-db-config for now. |
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> Sounds like the 'cache editor' that I mentioned in my original post. |
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> > That's the standard way to do such things (java-config, gcc-config) and |
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> > I don't see why databases should be an exception. |
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> These tools don't influence ebuilds at all. |
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> Although it might benefit working with databases, my idea about improving |
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> Portage is a more general idea. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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